BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty during a roadshow in support of his party candidates ahead of the 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly Polls, at Krishnanagar in Nadia district.
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Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of party candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Polls at Balurghat in South Dinajpur district.
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BJP National President J P Nadda addresses during an election campaign road show in favour of party candidate Priya Saha from Sainthia constituency, at Sainthia in Birbhum district...
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Defense Minister Rajnath Singh campaigns ahead of 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, at Krishnanagar in Nadia district.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally for State Assembly Polls, in Uttar Dinajpur district.
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A TMC party supporter gestures towards West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a roadshow in support of her party candidates for the ongoing State Assembly Polls, in Kolk...
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TMC party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a roadshow in support of her party candidates for the ongoing State Assembly Polls, in Kolkata.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign for State Assembly Polls at Tehatta in Nadia district.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates, ahead of the 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, at Bethuadahari in Nadia district.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates, ahead of the 6th phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, at Bethuadahari in Nadia district.
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BJP supporters of Suvendu Adhikary during an election campaign rally for the West Bengal Assembly Polls, at Illambazar in Birbhum district.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in support of BJP party candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Polls at Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district.
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Supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally for the West Bengal Assembly Polls at Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district.
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WB CM Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign rally for West Bengal Assembly Polls, at Galsi in Purba Bardhaman district.
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Supporters of Union Home Minister Amit Shah during an election campaign rally for West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Amdanga.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah during an election campaign rally for West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Amdanga.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in support of BJP party candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Polls at Gangarampur in South Dinajpur district.
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Voters wait to cast their votes during the fifth phase of West Bengal state elections in Newtown Rajarhat, North 24 Parganas district.
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Security personnel keep tight vigil after a clash during the 5th phase of Assembly Election at Salt Lake, in Kolkata.
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A security personnel carry an elderly voter to a polling station to cast vote during the 5th phase of State Assembly Election at Salt Lake, in Kolkata.
Urging people of Bengal to not panic over rising Covid-19 infections, Mamata Banerjee said that the state government is taking ‘every possible measure’ to check the spread of the virus.
The TMC supremo said she would shorten her speeches at campaign in different parts of the state to around 20 minutes or so from the usual time of about one hour.
Amit Shah also exuded confidence of the BJP emerging victorious in the state and claimed that the saffron party will bag more than 122 of the 180 Assembly constituencies that have gone to polls, so far.
The state reported a voter turnout of 78.36 per cent till 5 pm during the fifth phase of Assembly elections on Saturday, state Chief Electoral Officer Aariz Aftab said
On Friday, a purported audio clip of the West Bengal CM was leaked, in which she can be heard discussing plans to conduct a rally with the bodies of the victims of Cooch Behar violence.
PM Narendra Modi also accused TMC chief Mamata Banerjee of politicising the death of those who were killed in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district during the fourth phase of Assembly polls
On Friday, a purported audio clip of the West Bengal CM was leaked, in which she can be heard discussing plans to conduct a rally with the bodies of the victims of Cooch Behar violence.
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Over one crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the political fate of 342 candidates in the fifth phase of polling.
West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: Activists, including Naxalite supporters, believe this year's elections in West Bengal are extraordinary where every vote will matter.
Firing, corpses, a ban by the EC and a tweet storm…never a dull moment in the ongoing West Bengal elections. Analysts think this volatile turn will help the TMC.
Two spectres: a worrying second surge amidst a successful vaccination drive, and another virus against which Indian society seems to have no antibodies: the politics of religion.
This is where Mamata, in 2007, went right into the eye of the storm and mastered the furies. She returns again for a rematch—against a renegade satrap.
Young Tejashwi makes a soft border-crossing—endorsing his father’s old bête noire Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, and plumping for the Congress (and a few seats) in Assam
Top TMC leaders like Mukul Roy, Suvendu Adhikari, Sovan Chatterji, Rajib Banerjee, Saumitra Khan have defected to the BJP. How big a price will it be for the party in the coming assembly polls?
What’s cooking in Bengal? Looks like a plate of hot political sukto—Mamata, BJP, Left, a new Islamic party that both AIMIM and Congress are wooing, JMM, even Shiv Sena….