Tanmay Chatterjee

On January 30, days after he resigned from the cabinet and the TMC, Banerjee drew attention when he and a team of turncoat legislators under his leadership were flown to Delhi in a chartered plane so that they could join the BJP at the residence of Union home minister Amit Shah.

Amongt the four West Bengal seats on which bypolls are being held, Dinhata in north Bengal is expected to see the most-fierce contest between the BJP and TMC. The BJP won 7 of the region’s 8 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 and 30 of the 54 assembly seats.

After the BJP ended up winning only 77 assembly seats in the keenly watched March-April assembly polls, many in the saffron camp are now apparently trying to distance themselves from the puja at EZCC campus in Kolkata’s Salt Lake

KOLKATA/AGARTALA: Ashish Das, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Tripura who has been in touch with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for months, on Tuesday shaved his head, took a dip in the Ganga and offered prayers at a temple close to chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s home, saying he was performing an act of penance before joining West Bengal’s ruling party

The acrimonious relationship between the Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee and governor Dhankar has been in the news since his appointment in July 2019

Corporatisation means a different structure altogether, comes with financial and commercial implications, and needs to be effectively sold to the roughly 80,000 employees of the 41 factories who are nervous about what comes next.

With a turnout of around 57%, it was the lowest showing at poll in Bhawanipore in 10 years, according to ECI.

Tibrewal ended the race with only 26,428 votes against 85,263 that Banerjee secured, marking a 71.9% share of the 1,18,580 votes (including 705 postal ballots) cast on September 30. At around 57%, this was the lowest voter turnout at Bhawanipore in 10 years. Tibrewal’s defeat triggered rumblings in the BJP with several leaders questioning the decision to field her.

Although bypolls will be held in two other constituencies of the state — Samserganj and Jangipur — it is Bhawanipore where all the action is happening

The most ferocious campaign is happening in Bhawanipur. Vote for Bhawanipur will take place on September 30 along with Samserganj and Jangipur assembly seats.

While some veterans commented off-the-record, rebels such as Krishna Kalyani, legislator from Raiganj in North Dinajpur district in north Bengal did not stay silent. Majumdar represents the Balurghat seat in the adjoining South Dinajpur district

Referring to the post-poll violence incidents in the state, Majumdar alleged that many BJP supporters were killed by members of a minority community. He didn’t name the community

Sukanta Majumdar, the BJP’s surprise choice to replace Dilip Ghosh, said the Mamata Banerjee government” was imposing a Taliban-like regime in Bengal and vowed to evict the TMC from power at any cost in the assembly elections five years later.

Dilip Ghosh was named national vice-president of the BJP; Baby Rani Maurya was also appointed national vice-president of the party

The CJM ordered that the case will be heard again in November to consider “whether any case under Section 500/509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or any other law can be made out against the accused”.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government appointed senior lawyer Gopal Mukherjee as the state’s top law officer on Tuesday

Though all set to test her party’s strength in the BJP-ruled Tripura and Assam, before forging a national alliance against the saffron camp in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee will have to chalk out a different strategy for the two northeastern states

The Calcutta high court on Thursday ordered separate probes by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police into alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal this year

Several members of the CPI(M) central committee are more than 75 years old. Prominent among them are Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, 76, Bengal Left Front chairman Biman Bose, 81, and prominent Kerala leader S Ramachandran Pillai, 83.

TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee has created a travel roster for six TMC leaders from Bengal. Each one of them will spend three days in Tripura and leave the state when the next person marked in the roster arrives.

The project was launched on World Environment Day on June 5 and collection of plastic started from June 11 in Sunderban villages in Bengal.

The West Bengal government on Tuesday approached the two-judge bench of the Calcutta high court challenging the immunity from arrest granted by Justice Mantha.

Babul Supriyo said he was firm on his decision to quit politics but has decided to stay as Lok Sabha MP in view of his “constitutional responsibility”

CPI(M) leaders have been facing a major embarrassment since Wednesday when Jago Bangla started printing a four-part series on women empowerment in Bengal politics written by Ajanta Biswas.

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the assembly, attended the hearing. “The anti-defection law has not been enforced in Bengal in the last 10 years. We have faith in the speaker,” said Adhikari

Cracks have emerged in the Left Front as its constituents have blamed the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI (M)’s election strategy, especially the decision to forge an alliance with the cleric Abbasuddin Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front, for the latest electoral debacle

The coal smuggling case, became politically sensitive after CBI questioned TMC’s powerful general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee and her sister Maneka Gambhir in the run-up to the West Bengal state elections this year

The states are supposed to send names to the UPSC so that three nominees can be shortlisted based on their seniority, experience, service record, and years left in service

The case was transferred days after justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya on Friday directed the central project coordinator in charge of the virtual hearing to explain why technical glitches have become a regular feature