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  WB polls: 3,064 booths designated for 9 assembly seats across West Bardhaman district

  India | February 28, 2021 12:34 IST

  An additional 1.27 lakh electors have registered to vote this time. About 450 polling stations will have an all-woman polling staff, and all booths will be provided basic facilities like drinking water and toilets.

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  TMC worker killed, 2 injured in bomb attack in poll-bound Bengal

  India | February 24, 2021 6:51 IST

  The attackers also fired at 24-year-old Dolui before fleeing from the spot, a police officer said.

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  Bengal polls 2021: Plea filed against BJP's 'Rath Yatra' in Calcutta High Court

  India | February 05, 2021 11:05 IST

  A plea has been filed in Calcutta High Court against Bharatiya Janata Party's proposed 'Rath Yatra' in West Bengal ahead of assembly elections in the state. 

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  Bengal govt to demerge Bally Municipality from Howrah civic body

  India | January 22, 2021 10:21 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said the state government has approved a proposal to separate the Bally Municipality from Howrah Municipal Corporation and a bill will soon be introduced in the Assembly in this connection.

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  Bengal polls 2021: CEC Sunil Arora led Election Commission team to begin two-day visit from today

  Elections | January 20, 2021 11:32 IST

  The EC officials are also scheduled to meet representatives of political parties before meeting officials of the central and state regulatory agencies.

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  Mamata Banerjee will have to take refuge in Bangladesh after West Bengal polls: UP minister

  India | January 18, 2021 12:02 IST

  BJP leader and Uttar Pradesh minister Anand Swaroop Shukla has called West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee an 'Islamic terrorist'. Shukla holds the MoS for Parliamentary Affairs portfolio in Yogi Adityanath's Cabinet.

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  RSS-BJP meet in Ahmedabad from January 5-7 ahead of West Bengal polls

  India | January 02, 2021 11:46 IST

  The meeting will be presided over by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, while BJP chief JP Nadda too will be present in the meeting. It will likely see attendance from senior functionaries from its affiliates.

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  Bengal polls 2021: BJP appoints district observers, co-observers | check list

  India | December 28, 2020 8:24 IST

  Ahead of the forthcoming assembly elections in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday appointed district observers and district co-observers for the organisation. As per an official release, for Kolkata Zone, the party has appointed Sovan Chatterjee as the observer, while Debjit Sarkar has been appointed as convenor.

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  Will BJP leaders quit if party fails to get 200 seats in Bengal, asks Prashant Kishor

  India | December 22, 2020 14:13 IST

  A day after claiming that the BJP will not cross double digits in the West Bengal assembly polls, election strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday challenged its leaders to say on record that they will quit their positions if the party failed to get 200 seats.

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  Will ensure TMC victory in polls even if BJP arrests me: Mamata Banerjee

  Politics | November 25, 2020 14:54 IST

  Accusing the BJP of trying to poach TMC MLAs by attempting to bribe them, Banerjee, without naming anyone, said some people are acting as fence-sitters who are under the illusion that the saffron party might come to power in the state.

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  Amit Shah, JP Nadda in Kolkata to launch campaign for West Bengal local polls

  India | March 01, 2020 12:17 IST

  Union Home Minister Amit Shah is visiting Kolkata on Sunday to kickstart the BJP's campaign for local body elections in West Bengal, a precursor to the Assembly polls to be held next year.

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  Saradha scam emerges as major issue in West Bengal polls

  India | April 22, 2014 10:50 IST

  Kolkata: The multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam has emerged as a major poll plank in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal with major political parties like the Congress, BJP and CPI(M) training their guns against

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  Choppers Used During Heavy Polling In Maoist-Hit Areas Of Bengal

  India | May 10, 2011 16:39 IST

  Kolkata, May 10: Seventy per cent votes were polled till 1 PM  today in the sixth and last phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal in 14 Maoist-hit constituencies spread over three districts amid tight

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  Over 54 PC Polling Till 1 PM In Bengal

  India | May 03, 2011 16:34 IST

  Kolkata, May 3: More than 54 per cent polling was recorded till 1 PM in the election to the 63 constituencies spread across the districts of East Midnapore, Howrah, Hooghly and parts of Burdwan, where

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  Somnath Free To Campaign For LF Candidates: Bose

  Politics | April 17, 2011 18:48 IST

  Kolkata, Apr 17 : Left Front chairman Biman Bose today said that former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who was expelled from CPI(M), was free to campaign for LF candidates, while defending the charges made