Kolkata: The Supreme Court’s order on the supplementary revised electoral roll on Thursday is yet to address the anxiety among several deleted voters who are still waiting to know about the tribunals’ take on their voting right in the assembly election to be held on April 23 and 29 in Bengal.The order now allows a…
Rajnath Singh (ANI image) KARANDIGHI (WB): Hitting the campaign trail in West Bengal, defence minister Rajnath Singh Wednesday slammed CM Mamata Banerjee for deindustrialisation of the state, alleged a reign of fear and appeasement on her watch and projected the polls as a fight for land and existence by the local population against infiltrators.“You want…
A 43-year-old resident of Madhyamgram, Sumitava Mukherjee, submitted a written appeal to the DM on Thursday seeking permission for voluntary death for himself and his family after his name was struck off the electoral roll following the SIR.Mukherjee alleged that his name was arbitrarily deleted from the final electoral roll despite submission of all valid…
Kolkata: A general physician and owner of one of the port area’s most prominent nursing homes, also an ex-Trinamool MLA, will not be able to vote this time — along with four of his family members — thanks to SIR. The former legislator, Abul Kasem Molla, is shocked that the SIR has snatched voting rights…
Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said central forces approached her car while she was at the Dum Dum airport and she asked them to check it, and questioned why vehicles of Trinamool seniors were being checked while those of the PM’s and HM’s were spared.“At Dum Dum airport, central forces approached my vehicle. I…
Jalpaiguri: Falakata MLA Dipak Barman, also the constituency’s BJP candidate, was allegedly roughed up by locals on Tuesday evening at Kadambini tea estate, where he was on campaign.As Barman reached the garden and got down from his vehicle, a crowd stopped him from entering the garden. When he tried to force his way through, he…
KOLKATA: With central forces arriving at their premises well ahead of the polls, many state-aided schools have decided to delay first summative exams until the elections are over.They also plan to conduct the examinations before the onset of summer vacation.The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) has given nod to these schools for the…
Replica LPG cylinders, cricket bats, bicycles, sacks of potatoes — in the Bengal theatre of assembly polls, such props have occupied centre stage, each of them carefully chosen to signal a message, trigger emotion, or to sharpen a political attack.Across constituencies, candidates have been relying on the symbolism of these objects to cut through the…
Kolkata: Bengal governor RN Ravi chose a Poila Baisakh programme in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to urge the state’s youth to be a “part of change” and underline Bengal’s “decline” over the years, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to hit back with a “laatsaheb” barb.“Our share in the national capital has gone down from 10.6% to…
Kolkata: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman‘s distribution of weaver cards to handloom weavers in Bengal on Wednesday drew a model code violation complaint from Trinamool and a sharp rebuke from CM Mamata Banerjee.Sitharaman visited weavers in Serampore’s Ashram Para before travelling to Kalna in East Burdwan, where she distributed the cards — identity documents issued…
