Trinamool Congress rules out Mamata Banerjee contesting from another seat
Apr 02, 2021, at 01:10 am
Kolkata/UNI: The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday ruled out Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee contesting from another seat.
Nandigram incident shows Didi losing, she might fight from another seat: Modi taunts Mamata
Apr 01, 2021, at 11:46 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Taunting his political foe Mamata Banerjee who cried foul over voting in one polling booth in Nandigram, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the West Bengal Chief Minister might look for another seat as she was sure of losing to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Suvendu Adhikari.
Not worried about Nandigram but democracy: Mamata Banerjee
Apr 01, 2021, at 10:49 pm
Nandigram/IBNS: After two-hour long standoff in Nandigram's Boyal, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was worried about democracy and not her chance to win the seat.
BJP worker's body found hanging at his residence in Nandigram on poll day
Apr 01, 2021, at 06:27 pm
Nandigram/UNI: A BJP worker’s body was found at his Nandigram residence, even as the overall polling remained peaceful, at Nandigram, a high profile assembly constituency in East Medinipur, where the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is pitted against her former aid turned BJP rival Suvendu Adhikari.
Apr 01, 2021, at 01:47 pm
Kolkata: People in thirty constituencies in West Bengal, including the politically crucial Nandigram seat, and 39 in Assam are voting to elect new assemblies on Thursday.
High voltage Nandigram battle between Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari in Bengal today
Apr 01, 2021, at 06:26 am
Nandigram/IBNS: The much-awaited, high voltage and prestigious fight between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari will be held in the second phase of West Bengal assembly elections on Thursday.
Bengal: Hours before second phase polling, section 144 imposed in entire Nandigram
Apr 01, 2021, at 01:36 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Hours ahead of the polling, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday evening imposed CrPC section 144 in the entire Nandigram and Tamluk in East Medinipur district of West Bengal to avoid any untoward incident, officials said.
Mamata leaves wheelchair, stands up for national anthem at Nandigram
Mar 31, 2021, at 06:20 am
Nandigram/IBNS: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee left her wheelchair and stood on her feet to join her party members during the national anthem in a public meeting in Nandigram, said a Hindustan Times report.
Suvendu Adhikari will win in Nandigram by huge margin of votes: Amit Shah
Mar 30, 2021, at 08:34 pm
Nandigram/IBNS: Holding a mega roadshow in the closing hours of campaign, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the excitement of people of Nandigram towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) proved Suvendu Adhikari's clear win in the high-voltage seat.
Mar 27, 2021, at 08:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Releasing a call recording, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday claimed that Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee had sought help from a BJP leader in the West Bengal assembly election.
'Suvendu Adhikari harbouring armed criminals': TMC writes to Bengal EC
Mar 27, 2021, at 01:20 am
Kolkata/UNI: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday wrote to the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, saying that BJP's Nandigram candidate Suvendu Adhikari is harbouring armed criminals at least in nine locations.
Didi defaming Nandigram people with false allegation of attack: Modi targets Mamata in Kanthi
Mar 24, 2021, at 06:05 pm
Kanthi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for "falsely accusing" people of Nandigram of conspiring an attack on her in the Midnapore district.
Bengal CID takes over probe into Mar 10 Nandigram incident that left Mamata Banerjee injured
Mar 21, 2021, at 01:09 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Saturday took over the probe into the March 10 Nandigram incident in which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured during her campaign for the forthcoming assembly polls, officials said.
Mar 19, 2021, at 07:06 pm
"Why would we vote for an outsider who did not visit us for years," asks a middle-aged woman at Reapara in Nandigram Block 2 expressing her choice in no unclear terms.
Trinamool files complaint before EC over 'gruesome attacks on workers by BJP' in Nandigram
Mar 19, 2021, at 01:56 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress on Thursday filed a complaint to the Election Commission citing "gruesome" attacks on its party workers in poll-bound West Bengal's Nandigram in the last 24 hours by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists.
Sisir Adhikari to attend PM Modi's rally in Kanthi: Suvendu Adhikari
Mar 18, 2021, at 05:19 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s candidate from Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday said his father and Trinamool Congress MP Sisir Adhikari will be attending Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally at Kanthi in East Midnapore on Mar 24.
Mar 18, 2021, at 01:38 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress party on Wednesday wrote to the Election Commission to delete Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikar's name from the electoral roll in Nandigram as he filed false residence details.
Mar 15, 2021, at 04:23 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered an injury in Nandigram during her poll campaign, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday removed two senior IPS officials and an IAS officer involved in the security arrangements for the Bengal's ruling party's supremo, officials said.
Mamata addresses TMC rally in Kolkata on wheelchair, her first after Nandigram incident
Mar 14, 2021, at 10:08 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday addressed a TMC rally at Hazra in south Kolkata. The TMC chief said she would not rest any longer because of her injuries and start campaigning across Bengal to prevent the "machinators" from winning the assembly polls.
EC rejects TMC's conspiracy claim to injure Mamata in Nandigram
Mar 14, 2021, at 09:16 pm
Kolkata/UNI: The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday said there was no deliberate attempt or a conspiracy to attack Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee at Nandigram in East Midnapore district of West Bengal on March 10.
After injury Mamata Banerjee to lead roadshow in wheelchair today
Mar 14, 2021, at 05:19 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Four days after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured during a campaign trail in Nandigram, the Trinamool Congress supremo will attend her first public event on Sunday afternoon.
'Don't vote for BJP': Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait tells people in his Nandigram Mahapanchayat
Mar 14, 2021, at 05:06 am
Nandigram/IBNS: Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, who is one of the prominent faces of the farmers' protest against the three agriculture laws, is in West Bengal to hold Mahapanchayats (public meetings) to urge people to vote against the BJP in the upcoming assembly polls.
Will wheelchair bound Mamata fall heavier on BJP or remain optics in Bengal Polls 2021?
Mar 13, 2021, at 09:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In Indian politics, optics and emotions often play a major role. Be it the Congress' sweeping victory in 1984 General Elections post Indira Gandhi's assassination or Narendra Modi's resounding win in 2019 amid the nationalist wave after the Balakot airstrike. But simultaneously, the Indian politics is too fluid to be generalised.
Mamata Banerjee discharged from hospital, doctors say CM responded well to treatment
Mar 13, 2021, at 02:40 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Friday discharged from hospital, two days after she was injured in Nandigram during her campaign trail ahead of the Assembly elections.
Trinamool Congress delegation meets EC, demands high level probe into Mamata injury incident
Mar 12, 2021, at 08:34 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: A six-member Trinamool Congress delegation Friday met the Election Commission of India (ECI) here and ordered a high level probe into the alleged attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal's Nandigram.
BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari files nomination from Bengal Poll epicentre Nandigram
Mar 12, 2021, at 06:52 pm
Hadia/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Suvendu Adhikari Friday filed his nomination from the Nandigram constituency, which has turned out to be the epicentre of the West Bengal elections 2021.
BJP's Suvendu Adhikari to file nomination from Bengal Poll epicentre Nandigram today
Mar 12, 2021, at 04:27 pm
Haldia/IBNS: Holding a roadshow, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Suvendu Adhikari will Friday file his nomination from the Nandigram constituency, which has turned out to be the epicentre of the West Bengal elections 2021.
'Full of insinuations': Poll body on TMC's letter over Mamata Banerjee protection
Mar 12, 2021, at 02:54 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Election Commission on Thursday reacted sharply to the allegations by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party that it had failed to provide protection to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was injured on Wednesday while campaigning in Nandigram.
Bengal polls: Modi, Amit Shah to campaign for BJP next week, Mithun Chakraborty may join too
Mar 11, 2021, at 11:12 pm
Kolkata/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are expected to campaign the entire next week in West Bengal to boost the prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates, while actor-turned politician Mithun Chakraborty may participate in a roadshow at poll epicentre Nandigram.
Will return to campaign in 2-3 days in wheelchair: Mamata Banerjee's message to people
Mar 11, 2021, at 08:53 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Injured West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is undergoing a treatment in SSKM Hospital, Thursday said she would "manage" to return to political action within a few days but in a wheelchair.