NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Sunday rejected accusations made by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee about the entry of outsiders and the seizure of booths at a polling station in Boyal in Nandigram on April 1 as “factually incorrect “. The electoral body said the accusations “have no …
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SONARPUR / HARIPAL: Prime Minister Modi used his weekend election rallies in Haripal de Hooghly and Sonarpur of 24 South Parganas to return fire from Trinamool’s “bohiragoto (outsider)” saying that the West Bengal CM was welcome to contest the Varanasi polls without having to face xenophobia. “Didi, the people of …
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Koushani Mukherjee joined Trinamool two months ago and is vying for Krishnagar’s position Calcutta: Actress-turned-Trinamool Congressional Candidate Koushani Mukherjee sparked controversy on Saturday when a video with her alleged comment “Please think before you cast your votes, you have a mother, sister at home” went viral. Koushani Mukherjee, who had …
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NANDIGRAM: A nondescript rural outpost in Nandigram was catapulted to center stage amid a 30-seat Bengal vote on Thursday when CM and Trinamool candidate Mamata Banerjee landed there unannounced and stayed there for more than two hours to stop what she claimed were “outsider Hindi-speaking armed people” to intimidate voters, …
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CALCUTTA: Playing with Mamata Banerjee’s 2011 winning slogan of “paribartan (change)” while declaring that the “game” for her party was over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pitted BJP’s “development politics” against the Trinamool’s “model of corruption and violence” and urged Bengal voters to help him usher in “ashol paribartan …
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CALCUTTA: Prime Minister of West Bengal Mamata banerjee on Saturday he screamed “humiliation” as chants of “Jai Shri Ram” from part of the crowd ripped through the air in the prime minister’s presence Narendra modi just when he got up to speak at the official ceremony commemorating Netaji The 125th …
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Rajib Banerjee has not named anyone who, according to him, was carrying out propaganda against him. Highlight Rajib Banerjee’s resignation has been accepted by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar He is the third minister to resign from the state government in a month. He claimed that some TMC leaders were carrying out …
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KANTHI: In your new avatar, Suvendu Adhikari hit the house lawn Kanthi with a bang, giving BJP a homegrown slogan – ‘Hare Krishna Hare Hare, BJP Ghare Ghare’ – that would touch Vaishnavites in East Midnapore more than the party’s central slogan ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Suvendu’s next big rally is …
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Tomorrow’s Suvendu Adhikari rally is his personal event, the BJP has said Calcutta: The ruling Trinamool Congress of Bengal today brought its battle against former leader Suvendu Adhikari to his homeland, with a padayatra and a mass demonstration in Kanthi, the headquarters of the East Midnapore district, which is where …
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Election strategist Prashant Kishor issued a challenge to the BJP on Monday after his acquisition of Trinamool leaders during Amit Shah’s two-day visit to the state over the weekend. Kishor, tied up last year by Mamata Banerjee for her campaign in Bengal, said the BJP “will struggle to cross double …
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