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Lok Sabha elections 2019: In Bengal’s former Red stronghold, a saffron surge

The Trinamool Congress is aware of the challenge and has deployed a three-pronged strategy.

Updated on May 12, 2020, 8:19 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Is TMC’s hold on tribal areas slipping?

All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chief and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee faces a new challenge from BJP in Bankura, Medinipur, Bankura and Purulia constituencies.

Updated on May 12, 2019, 7:39 AM IST

Village, where Mamata Banerjee ate fried ant eggs, still awaits a facelift

A non functional tank in the village.

Updated on May 10, 2019, 2:22 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: More troops in next phase of Bengal polls

The Centre has sent an additional 30 companies of central paramilitary forces, each comprising 100 men, to West Bengal from Assam and other adjoining states for the last two phases of the ongoing general elections.

Updated on May 10, 2019, 7:20 AM IST

‘Why should I slap PM’: Mamata Banerjee explains ‘slap of democracy’ remark

Mamata Banerjee had during a campaign rally at Raghunathpur in the district on Tuesday said that Modi should get a “tight slap of democracy”.

Updated on May 11, 2020, 10:48 AM IST

Babul Supriyo invites former TMC MP Kabir Suman for a debate; gets counter invite for musical duel

Babul Supriyo invited artiste and former TMC lawmaker Kabir Suman to an open debate on politics in West Bengal but received an unusual proposal.

Updated on May 9, 2019, 2:19 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP nominees say TMC attacked them

BJP candidate from Hoogly seat Locket Chatterjee leaves the Dhaniakhali Police Station after lodging a complaint, in Hooghly, Monday, May 6, 2019.

Updated on May 6, 2019, 11:26 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Violent clashes roil south Bengal round

Voters stands in queue to cast their vote during the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Election.

Updated on May 6, 2019, 10:14 PM IST

‘Didn’t want to share dais with expiry PM’: Mamata Banerjee attacks Modi

Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Updated on May 10, 2020, 12:25 AM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP aims to breach Mamata Banerjee’s citadel in Bengal

In five of the seven constituencies, out of which Howrah, Serampore, Hooghly and Barrackpore have labour intensive manufacturing units, most of which have fallen into disrepair, the lack of jobs will be a key issue.

Updated on May 6, 2019, 7:24 AM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: ‘Biggest calamity for country’: Mamata Banerjee sharpens attack on PM Modi

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee

Updated on May 5, 2019, 8:14 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019- ‘Will beat you up like dogs’: Bengal BJP candidate tells Trinamool workers

Bharati Ghosh, the BJP candidate from West Bengal’s Ghatal constituency, has kicked up a row by threatening Trinamool Congress workers.

Updated on May 5, 2019, 2:42 PM IST

Mamata Banerjee was on ‘tour’ when PMO called after cyclone Fani: Report

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s staff tried twice to call Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to take about Cyclone Fani.

Updated on May 5, 2019, 5:56 PM IST

Bengal BJP candidate Shantanu Thakur injured after vehicle collides with car, party cries foul

The accident took place at Hanspur under Gaighata police station around 60 km from Kolkata.

Updated on May 4, 2019, 5:20 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Mamata Banerjee wants PM Modi’s nomination cancelled for ‘indulging in horse trading’

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday demanded cancellation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s candidature from Varanasi

Updated on Apr 30, 2019, 5:21 PM IST

Bengal BJP candidate meets Trinamool leader, fuels speculations

JP candidate from Jadavpur, Anupam Hazra met TMC’s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal, on Monday in Birbhum’s Bolpur.

Updated on Apr 30, 2019, 10:48 AM IST

11 years later, a Tata turnaround by Mamata Banerjee’s party

Ever since she came to power in 2011, Banerjee has been trying to seek fresh investments even as critics have pointed to her stubborn policies on land acquisition — a politically sensitive issue for the state — that led to Tata’s exit from Singur.

Updated on Apr 30, 2019, 11:29 AM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: In Mamata’s rosogollas filled with pebbles for him, PM Modi sees an opportunity

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public rally at Bhatpara in West Bengal’s Barrackpore on Monday.

Updated on May 7, 2020, 2:49 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: ‘40 Trinamool MLAs in touch with me, will desert you’: PM Modi to Mamata

The West Bengal chief minister has not been holding back in her attacks on the PM either. She has, at different rallies, referred to him as “expiry babu”, claiming that Modi’s tenure as prime minister was about to end “but he is not mentally prepared for going out of power”.

Updated on May 6, 2020, 8:54 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Bengal battle reaches EC in Delhi

BJP candidate Babul Supriyo's SUV that was allegedly attacked by the TMC supporters while he was heading to visit a polling station, during 4th phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Asansol, Monday,

Updated on May 6, 2020, 8:48 PM IST

‘I woke up late’: Why Moon Moon Sen did not know of violence in her constituency

Actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen

Updated on May 6, 2020, 7:58 PM IST

EC puts controversial TMC leader Anubrata Mondal under surveillance

The district’s two Lok Sabha constituencies, Bolpur and Birbhum, will go to polls on Monday. The district is known for political killings and violence and Mondal has been accused of instigating these on several occasions.

Updated on Apr 29, 2019, 7:50 AM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: With phase 4, elections move to Trinamool stronghold south Bengal

Eight West Bengal seats are going to polls in phase 4 of Lok Sabha elections 2019.

Updated on Apr 28, 2019, 10:18 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: BJP alleges attack by TMC in Bengal; Left candidate assaulted, Congress office vandalised

Two days before the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders alleged on Saturday that Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers vandalised a party office and beat up their supporters .

Updated on Apr 28, 2019, 12:10 AM IST

Opposition parties complain to EC, demand removal of BJP’s name from EVMs

Former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, who is also a sitting MP from Barrackpore, said this was a “clear fraud on the people” and “an attempt to hack the EVMs”.

Updated on Apr 27, 2019, 9:56 PM IST

Poll posters: Old message, new writing on the wall

A Trinamool Congress wall graffiti seen on Alimuddin Street near CPI (M) headquarter in Kolkata.

Published on Apr 27, 2019, 7:33 PM IST

Raj Babbar takes jibe at Mamata Banerjee, asks how she knew Modi’s kurta size

Congress leader Raj Babbar

Updated on Apr 27, 2019, 12:09 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Widow of slain TMC MLA hits campaign trail in West Bengal

BJP leader Mukul Roy is an accused in Satyajit’s murder and is out on bail. The BJP, however, maintains Satyajit’s death was a result of infighting in the TMC.

Updated on Apr 27, 2019, 9:54 AM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019-‘Even those fighting 20 seats want to be PM’: Modi on Opposition

Modi had first called Banerjee “speed breaker didi” in Siliguri earlier this month, to describe what he called her attitude to development.

Published on Apr 24, 2019, 11:22 PM IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Mamata accuses Modi of buying votes with black money

Mamata Banerjee alleged that Modi had distributed liquor licenses to some handpicked people just ahead of the polls and said that the TMC government will unearth the scam and expose his “real face” to the people.

Updated on Apr 24, 2019, 6:48 PM IST

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