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][WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2021]
Congress unlikely to field candidate against Didi for Bhowanipur bypoll
By Saubhadra Chatterji, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JUN 05, 2021 03:26 AM IST
- While the Banerjee-led Trinamool won Bengal, she lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram, and now needs to win a bypoll to retain her seat.
Extended election campaign pushed Covid-19 cases jump in rural Bengal
PTI |
UPDATED ON MAY 16, 2021 07:40 PM IST
Most medical professionals blame the mass gatherings at election rallies for the huge surge in the disease.
Bengal facing twin challenges of Covid-19, post-poll violence: Guv Dhankhar
PTI |
PUBLISHED ON MAY 13, 2021 04:13 PM IST
- Governor Dhankhar said he was shocked by incidents of attack following the West Bengal assembly elections, and decided to visit various places affected by the post-poll violence in the interest of the people.
In Bengal’s post-poll political violence, a battle of narratives
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2021 12:13 PM IST
The BJP has alleged 17 of its workers have been killed in nine days in Bengal’s post-verdict political violence, the TMC has accused the BJP of spreading fake news on social media, while police investigation into some of the alleged murders pointed at either suicide or unnatural death
West Bengal: Elections to Samsherganj, Jangipur assembly seats today
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Prashasti Singh, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2021 06:24 AM IST
Reaul Haque, the Congress candidate from Samsherganj assembly constituency in Murshidabad district, died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on April 15. Pradip Kumar Nandi, the Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate from Jangipur, also succumbed to the infection on April 17.
[Assam Assembly Election 2021]
BJP looks set to become first non-Congress govt to win consecutive terms in Assam
UPDATED ON MAY 02, 2021 05:05 PM IST
Official trends were available for 115 of the 126 seats at 11.30 am. The BJP and its allies were leading in 73 seats, ahead of the Congress and its allies in 41 seats
Himanta was sure of becoming CM even in his college days, says wife Rinki Bhuyan
PTI | , Guwahati
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2021 08:03 PM IST
"He was 22 and I was 17 when we first met and I had asked him what I would tell my mother about his future. He had replied- tell her that I will become the chief minister of Assam," said Riniki Bhuyan.
PM Modi congratulates new Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 10, 2021 02:21 PM IST
- Himanta Biswa Sarma was earlier a Congress heavyweight and erstwhile chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s second-in-command
Himanta Biswa Sarma takes oath as Assam’s 15th CM; 13 ministers also sworn in
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2021 01:17 PM IST
The ministers are Ranjeet Kumar Dass, Chandra Mohan Patowary, Parimal Suklabaidya, Ronoj Pegu, Sanjay Kishan, Jogen Mohan, Ajanta Neog, Ashok Singhal, Pijush Hazarika, Bimal Bora (all from BJP) Atul Bora and Keshav Mahanta (from AGP) and Urkhao Gwra Brahma (from UPPL)
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Ayodhya: AAP leaders pray at Ram Mandir to kick off UP poll campaign
PUBLISHED ON SEP 14, 2021 03:27 PM IST
[Tamil Nadu Assembly Election 2021]
Tamil Nadu assembly elections: Kamal Haasan leads in Coimbatore South
By Divya Chandrababu
PUBLISHED ON MAY 02, 2021 01:13 PM IST
Coimbatore South is the only seat where Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), which the actor floated ahead of the assembly elections, was leading
DMK's MK Stalin takes oath as Tamil Nadu's next chief minister
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Shivani Kumar | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New D4elhi
UPDATED ON MAY 07, 2021 11:41 AM IST
- Stalin's DMK won 133 seats in the recently held elections for the 234-member assembly. The party contested the polls in alliance with some other regional parties and Congress.
TN CM-elect Stalin gets home portfolio as DMK issues list of 34 ministers
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2021 06:25 PM IST
DMK chief MK Stalin will be sworn-in as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan on Friday.
Governor appoints DMK chief Stalin as chief minister of Tamil Nadu
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 05, 2021 09:50 PM IST
Earlier in the day, MK Stalin, now officially the chief minister-designate, met governor Banwarilal Purohit to stake claim to form the government. The swearing-in ceremony will take place at 9am on May 7 at the Raj Bhavan.
[Kerala Assembly Election 2021]
BJP sees hope in Kerala after Cong’s poll show
By Ramesh Babu
UPDATED ON MAY 04, 2021 06:07 AM IST
- Thiruvananthapuram: In a red surge in Kerala on Sunday the saffron party was washed away
In Kerala, BJP loses lone seat won in 2016
By Ramesh Babu, Thiruvananthapuram
UPDATED ON MAY 04, 2021 06:10 AM IST
BJP national leaders raised many issues such as Love Jihad, the entry of women into Sabarimala etc-- but they failed to enthuse voters.
Complete washout in Kerala; BJP remains distant third in state
By Ramesh Babu
UPDATED ON MAY 03, 2021 05:43 PM IST
Out of 95 seats the Congress contested, it got 21 and the BJP drew a blank, losing all 113 seats it contested. A close look at the results shows that the BJP’s high-decible campaign that it is the only credible alternative in bipolar politics fell flat
Left Front wins a war, but also loses a crucial battle
By Ramesh Babu, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 03, 2021 03:31 AM IST
- The victory in Kerala is the most significant electoral gain for the Left since it lost Bengal in 2011
[Puducherry Assembly Election 2021]
What the verdict means for Pinarayi Vijayan
UPDATED ON MAY 03, 2021 08:10 AM IST
Pinarayi Vijayan breaks trend, becomes key Left leader
Puducherry: NDA gains majority, Congress suffers a major setback
By Divya Chandrababu, Chennai
UPDATED ON MAY 03, 2021 06:43 AM IST
- As of 10 pm, the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared that AINRC had won 10 seats while its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had no presence in the region until now, had secured five seats and was leading in one.
AIADMK draws blank in Puducherry assembly polls
PTI | , Puducherry
PUBLISHED ON MAY 02, 2021 11:05 PM IST
Senior AIADMK leader A Anbalagan, his brother A Baskar and K A U Hasana Maricar lost in Uppalam, Modeliarpet and Karaikal (south) constituencies respectively to DMK.
Puducherry records 81.70% turnout in assembly polls
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON APR 06, 2021 05:58 PM IST
- Yanam constituency witnessed brisk polling from the beginning of the polling.
Congress unlikely to field candidate against Didi for Bhowanipur bypoll
By Saubhadra Chatterji, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON JUN 05, 2021 03:26 AM IST
- While the Banerjee-led Trinamool won Bengal, she lost to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram, and now needs to win a bypoll to retain her seat.
Extended election campaign pushed Covid-19 cases jump in rural Bengal
PTI |
UPDATED ON MAY 16, 2021 07:40 PM IST
Most medical professionals blame the mass gatherings at election rallies for the huge surge in the disease.
Bengal facing twin challenges of Covid-19, post-poll violence: Guv Dhankhar
PTI |
PUBLISHED ON MAY 13, 2021 04:13 PM IST
- Governor Dhankhar said he was shocked by incidents of attack following the West Bengal assembly elections, and decided to visit various places affected by the post-poll violence in the interest of the people.
In Bengal’s post-poll political violence, a battle of narratives
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2021 12:13 PM IST
The BJP has alleged 17 of its workers have been killed in nine days in Bengal’s post-verdict political violence, the TMC has accused the BJP of spreading fake news on social media, while police investigation into some of the alleged murders pointed at either suicide or unnatural death
West Bengal: Elections to Samsherganj, Jangipur assembly seats today
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Prashasti Singh, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 13, 2021 06:24 AM IST
Reaul Haque, the Congress candidate from Samsherganj assembly constituency in Murshidabad district, died due to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on April 15. Pradip Kumar Nandi, the Revolutionary Socialist Party candidate from Jangipur, also succumbed to the infection on April 17.
West Bengal: Guv Dhankhar to visit post-poll violence affected areas on May 13
ANI |
PUBLISHED ON MAY 11, 2021 09:05 PM IST
- Dhankhar will visit West Bengal's Sitalkuchi and other places in Coochbehar where he will interact with victims of post-poll violence.
Himanta was sure of becoming CM even in his college days, says wife Rinki Bhuyan
PTI | , Guwahati
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2021 08:03 PM IST
"He was 22 and I was 17 when we first met and I had asked him what I would tell my mother about his future. He had replied- tell her that I will become the chief minister of Assam," said Riniki Bhuyan.
Mamata Banerjee inducts 43 ministers: Check full list of portfolios
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Harshit Sabarwal | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2021 06:56 PM IST
The TMC won the state assembly elections for a third consecutive time as it secured 213 of the total 294 assembly constituencies. Mamata Banerjee had taken oath as the chief minister of Bengal for a third time on May 5.
PM Modi congratulates new Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Ayshee Bhaduri, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 10, 2021 02:21 PM IST
- Himanta Biswa Sarma was earlier a Congress heavyweight and erstwhile chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s second-in-command
Himanta Biswa Sarma takes oath as Assam’s 15th CM; 13 ministers also sworn in
PUBLISHED ON MAY 10, 2021 01:17 PM IST
The ministers are Ranjeet Kumar Dass, Chandra Mohan Patowary, Parimal Suklabaidya, Ronoj Pegu, Sanjay Kishan, Jogen Mohan, Ajanta Neog, Ashok Singhal, Pijush Hazarika, Bimal Bora (all from BJP) Atul Bora and Keshav Mahanta (from AGP) and Urkhao Gwra Brahma (from UPPL)
Himanta Biswa Sarma sworn-in as Assam CM, 13 MLAs also take oath
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 10, 2021 01:00 PM IST
Himanta Biswa Sarma is the 15th chief minister of Assam, and the second Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) CM of the northeastern state. Sarma succeeds party colleague Sarbananda Sonowal in office.
Assam CM-elect Himanta Biswa Sarma to take oath today
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 10, 2021 09:13 AM IST
Sarma was on Sunday elected 'unanimously' as the leader of the BJP’s legislature party in Assam, and will be the 15th chief minister of the northeastern state.
Himanta Biswa Sarma chosen as next CM of Assam, to assume charge tomorrow
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 09, 2021 01:43 PM IST
Sarma, who will succeed fellow BJP leader Sarbananda Sonowal in office, was on Sunday 'unanimously' elected as the BJP's legislature party leader in the northeastern state.
Himanta Sarma meets BJP's top brass to discuss Assam leadership; Sonowal to join
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Shivani Kumar | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 08, 2021 01:35 PM IST
- The BJP did not announce a chief ministerial candidate before the Assembly polls in Assam, where the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won 75 seats in the 126-member Assembly and secured a second term.
Four-member team from Centre in Bengal to investigate post-poll violence
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 07, 2021 05:12 PM IST
- The four-member team, led by an additional secretary of the home ministry, is tasked with looking into reasons for the violence which took the lives of at least 16 people.
DMK's MK Stalin takes oath as Tamil Nadu's next chief minister
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Shivani Kumar | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh, Hindustan Times, New D4elhi
UPDATED ON MAY 07, 2021 11:41 AM IST
- Stalin's DMK won 133 seats in the recently held elections for the 234-member assembly. The party contested the polls in alliance with some other regional parties and Congress.
‘Need to accept people’s mandate and stop spreading Covid’: Mamata tells BJP
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 06, 2021 08:11 PM IST
- Mamata also targeted the Prime Minister over the allocation of funds for vaccination purposes. She said that the money should be allocated for free vaccines rather than building statues and constructing a new Parliament building.
'If ministers can be attacked then people are not safe in Bengal': Javadekar
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 06, 2021 06:32 PM IST
- Muraleedharan accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of perpetrating the attack on his convoy.
BJP shares photo of scribe, claims him to be party cadre killed in clashes
By hindustantimes.com | Written by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON MAY 06, 2021 05:24 PM IST
Abhro, who lives in the national capital region, also shared the screenshot of the video from Facebook and also shared the link along with the tweet.
TN CM-elect Stalin gets home portfolio as DMK issues list of 34 ministers
By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral, New Delhi
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2021 06:25 PM IST
DMK chief MK Stalin will be sworn-in as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in a simple ceremony at the Raj Bhavan on Friday.
Ex-governor Tathagata Roy slams top BJP leaders for Bengal poll debacle
By HT Correspondent | Edited by Smriti Sinha
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2021 04:29 PM IST
Roy headed the Bengal unit of the BJP between 2002 and 2006. In back-to-back tweets on Thursday, he levelled allegations of incompetence against Dilip Ghosh, Kailash Vijayvargiya, national secretary Arvind Menon, and national joint general secretary (organisation) Shivprakash
Bengal police deny rape allegation as post-poll violence continues
By HT Correspondent, Kolkata/siliguri
UPDATED ON MAY 06, 2021 04:41 AM IST
Till Tuesday, at least 12 people were killed in various political attacks and clashes that erupted ever since the assembly results were declared on May 2. On Wednesday, the bodies of two TMC workers were recovered in Cooch Behar and Alipurduar districts.