Rashtriya Janata Dal on April 13 released party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections promising five new airports in the Bihar and ₹ 1 lakh every year to “sisters from poor families.”
Three tribal women were buried alive and five others injured in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum district when a heap of soil caved in on Wednesday, PTI reported.
The West Bengal Police has lodged a case of molestation and house trespassing against officials from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) following a raid conducted by the agency in the East Medinipur district regarding the 2002 bomb blast case.
In yet another blow to the Left-Congress alliance in West Bengal, the Indian Secular Front (ISF), formerly aligned with the coalition, has opted to pursue its own path. They have announced intentions to contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Twenty-two leaders of the Lok Janshakti Party resigned from the party on Wednesday expressing anger over not getting tickets for the Lok Sabha elections and said will support the Opposition INDIA bloc.
Asserting that Saturdays firing by the CISF in Cooch Behar, which claimed four lives, would prove to be a "turning point" in West Bengal assembly elections, Bimal Gurung, the chief of one of the two Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) factions, claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would face the wrath of voters in the remaining four phases of polling in the northern part of Bengal.
Claiming she had long apprehended such a situation after watching the "high handedness" of central forces for long, Banerjee said "after killing so many people they (Election Commission) are saying the firing was in self defence. They should feel ashamed. This is a lie."
Atleast Four people were shot dead Saturday morning in Bengal's Cooch Behar district in a clash with security forces outside a polling booth.
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the CRPF personnel are harassing voters in the poll bound Bengal at the behest of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee slammed the Election Commission and asked the poll panel "how and why does Prime Minister Narendra Modi always campaign on election day".
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi MP on Wednesday has slammed West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee over her 'BJP stooge' remark and said that "in Mamata's world everyone who’s gotra-less is stooge."
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for choosing to go to Bangladesh on an official visit when Assembly elections are underway in bordering Bengal.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has complained to the Election Commission over alleged misuse of central agencies in cases against TMC leaders, saying similar action is not taken against accused members of the BJP, according to reports.
Addressing a rally in West Bengal’s Egra, Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah vowed that his party would expel all “infiltrators” within five years if the saffron party were to come to power in the upcoming assembly polls.
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said she would bring "parivartan" (change) to Delhi after winning the upcoming assembly polls in Bengal.