Tag: election
Bengal Elections: Ghulam Nabi Azad, Anand Sharma, Kapil Sibal & Manish Tewari Missing From Campaigners' List
The Congress on Friday released the list of its star campaigners for the first phase of the Bengal Assembly elections. Missing from the list were prominent members of G-23, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and Anand Sharma, though these leaders have reiterated that they will campaign for the party . ....
Yashwant Sinha Joins TMC, Says ‘attack On Mamata Banerjee Was Tipping Point’
Yashwant Sinha, finance and External Affairs Minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the centre, joined the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Saturday. ....
Mamata Banerjee Releases Trinamool Manifesto, Promises 5L Jobs Each Year
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday released the election manifesto of Trinamool Congress ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls in the state to be held in eight phases from March 27 to April 29. ....
'Khela' Will End, 'vikas' Start: PM Modi Tells Didi Mamata
Countering Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress' popular slogan "Khela Hobe", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday trained guns at the West Bengal chief minister countering her with politics of developments, instead of unabated violence....
If There Is Any Party Bangla In True Sense, It Is BJP: PM Modi
Countering West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's sustained attacks at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dubbing it an 'outsider party', Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a massive public rally on Saturday in West Midnapore's Kharagpur said "if there is a Bengal party in the true sense, then it is the BJP". ....
Sharad Pawar To Campaign For Trinamool In Bengal
Despite being part of the Congress-Sena-NCP alliance in the Maharashtra government, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, who was named star campaigner in West Bengal from the MVA, Pawar will be campaigning for Trinamool Congress next week after Holi. ....
On Poll Rigging Claims, BJP Says ‘Mamata Under Pressure, TMC Knows It’s Losing’
The President of BJP's West Bengal unit Dilip Ghosh said the Trinamool Congress is aware that it is going to lose the assembly elections and is therefore is resorting to poll rigging allegations against them. ....
Nearly 80% Voter Turnout In First Phase Of Bengal Polls
Amid sporadic incidents of violence, an estimated 79.79 per cent of the electorate exercised their franchise till 5.30 pm in the first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal on Saturday, the Election Commission (EC) officials said here. ....
Video Shows EVM In Assam BJP MLA's Vehicle: Priyanka Gandhi Asks EC To Act
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday asked the Election Commission (EC) to act 'decisively" after an EVM was found in the BJP MLAs vehicle in Assam. ....
Congress Will Win 101 Seats To Form Govt In Assam: Surjewala
By securing 101 seats in the 126-member Assam Assembly, the Congress led 'Mahajot' would form the government on May 5 and in the first session of the Vidhan Sabha, it would initiate the process of implementing its 'five guarantees' for the state, AICC General Secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed here on Friday. ....
