Kurukshetra: Why Poll Violence became an Integral Feature of elections in West Bengal?
April 06, 2021 19:44 ISTSporadic violence was reported and some candidates were attacked during the third phase of West Bengal assembly elections on Tuesday.
Sporadic violence was reported and some candidates were attacked during the third phase of West Bengal assembly elections on Tuesday.
Maharashtra Home minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday resigned from the post after the Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe into corruption charges levelled against him. The Bombay High earlier today ordered a CBI probe into the graft charges against him by former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh.
The third phase of the Bengal election to be held on April 6. Ahead of that, a viral audio tape surfaced in Media connected to Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee. The video is about claiming to send 35 crore rupees every month to Abhishek Banerjee.
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and its arch-rival the Bharatiya Janata Party engaged in a battle of nerves even as the first two phases of the assembly elections have already been held with six more rounds remaining.
The Election Commission has suspended four officials after a row erupted over the use of a BJP candidate's vehicle to take a polled EVM to the strong room in Assam. The poll body said that Presiding Officer and three others have been placed under suspension. Besidesa a show-cause notice has also been issued to the PO for violation of transport protocol.
All eyes are on Nandigram. The constituency will see a high-stakes electoral battle between West Bengal’s chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee and her friend-turned-foe Suvendu Adhikari, purported to be the most influential strongman in the region.
In her final leg of campaigning for the second phase of the West Bengal elections, CM Mamata Banerjee revealed that belongs to the highest 'Shandilya' gotra.
All eyes will be on Nandigram in the second phase of West Bengal elections where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faces her former lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari in perhaps the most high-profile contest of 2021.
Nandigram in East Midnapore district, the site of a much-talked-about anti-displacement movement that played a pivotal role behind the fall of the 34-year-old Left Front regime, is all set to become the most high-profile contest in the state Assembly elections.
Polling for the first phase of West Bengal and Assam assembly elections 2021 was held on Saturday. A voter turnout of 79.79 percent was recorded in Bengal. After the bumper voting in west bengal Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said according to the feedback received from the ground, the saffron party will win 26 of the 30 seats in the first phase.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday landed in Dhaka on a two-day visit to Bangladesh, his first international trip since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic last year.
West Bengal and Assam are set for the first phase of assembly elections on Saturday. Campaigning for this phase will end on Thursday evening. In Bengal, the BJP and ruling Trinamool Congress, headed by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, are spearheading intense election campaign in West Bengal with the saffron party deploying its enviable political machinery to capture power in the state which it has never ruled.
Crisis is hovering over the government of Maharashtra. After the Rs 100 crore recovery scandal, the transfer racket has now surfaced. Former CM Devendra Fadnavis has revealed this in a press conference. He also showed a letter here, in which Rashmi Shukla, Commissioner of the State Intelligence Department, told the DGP of Maharashtra about the transfer-posting racket.
Former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh set off a major row on Saturday when he alleged that Deshmukh had asked suspended Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze to collect Rs 100 crore from Mumbai's restaurants, bars and hookah bars.
West Bengal will witness a tough fight in the upcoming state assembly elections between the rulling TMC and the BJP. The eight-phase state Assembly polls will begin on March 27. It will continue till April 29. The counting of voting will take place on May 2.
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