Bengal Civic Polls

West Bengal Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Firhad Hakim on Monday stepped down as the Chairman of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Ahead of the Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has restrained political appointees serving as board administrators of West Bengal municipal corporations, whose term has ended, from discharging their functions until the model code of conduct is in force.

The BJP on Thursday urged the Election Commission to remove "political appointees" from various boards of administrators in civic bodies appointed by the West Bengal government, saying it appointed the same representatives who had completed their term of five years in blatant violation of constitutional and legal provisions.

Motorcycle rallies by political parties will not be allowed once the model code of conduct is enforced in Bengal ahead of Assembly polls due in April-May, the Election Commission said, adding that the Civic Volunteers would not be involved either

Kolkata municipal elections - to have been held in April but postponed because of the Covid pandemic - may be held by the end of March next year, weeks before the 2021 Assembly polls

WBPCC president Somen Mitra on Sunday said the Congress will have a seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front for the West Bengal civic polls but will not form an alliance with it.

Taking a cue from Mamata Banerjee's ''Didi ke bolo'' outreach programme, the West Bengal BJP is planning to launch ''BJP ke bolo'' initiative ahead of municipal elections in the state.

The BJP Tuesday took control of the Bhatpara Municipality, its first civic body in West Bengal, after a majority of its Trinamool Congress councillors switched over to the BJP days after the Lok Sabha polls results are announced.

A young BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in West Bengal's Purulia this morning, in what the party alleged was a political murder linked to the violent civic polls in the state earlier this month. 20-year-old Trilochan Mahato was hanging by his own trousers.

At a three-hour long session in Delhi today, BJP chief Amit Shah, accompanied by various power point presentations , met 31 of the party's top leaders including ministers to brief them on his strategy for dominating the 2019 general election. In short, his credo: focus on seats the BJP didn't win last time.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has swept all seven urban local bodies for which elections were held in West Bengal on Sunday. Of a total 148 wards, the Trinamool has won a massive 140 and the BJP six. The Left's seat was won by the Forward Bloc, while the CPM and Congress drew a blank.

Major opposition parties in West Bengal have demanded cancellation of elections to the seven municipal bodies held today, alleging widespread violence and booth-capturing by Trinamool Congress workers.

The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has left no stone unturned to ensure its victory in all the civic bodies

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's latest victory - her Trinamool Congress has taken four of seven municipal bodies in Bengal where elections were held - is made sweeter by a win in Mirik in the hills of Darjeeling, a stronghold for years of BJP ally the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).

Describing the violence and "rampant irregularities" in Sunday's civic polls as a "mockery of democracy", CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday slammed West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress for its "blatant misuse" of the state machinery.

West Bengal Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Firhad Hakim on Monday stepped down as the Chairman of Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Ahead of the Assembly polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has restrained political appointees serving as board administrators of West Bengal municipal corporations, whose term has ended, from discharging their functions until the model code of conduct is in force.

The BJP on Thursday urged the Election Commission to remove "political appointees" from various boards of administrators in civic bodies appointed by the West Bengal government, saying it appointed the same representatives who had completed their term of five years in blatant violation of constitutional and legal provisions.

Motorcycle rallies by political parties will not be allowed once the model code of conduct is enforced in Bengal ahead of Assembly polls due in April-May, the Election Commission said, adding that the Civic Volunteers would not be involved either

Kolkata municipal elections - to have been held in April but postponed because of the Covid pandemic - may be held by the end of March next year, weeks before the 2021 Assembly polls

WBPCC president Somen Mitra on Sunday said the Congress will have a seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front for the West Bengal civic polls but will not form an alliance with it.

Taking a cue from Mamata Banerjee's ''Didi ke bolo'' outreach programme, the West Bengal BJP is planning to launch ''BJP ke bolo'' initiative ahead of municipal elections in the state.

The BJP Tuesday took control of the Bhatpara Municipality, its first civic body in West Bengal, after a majority of its Trinamool Congress councillors switched over to the BJP days after the Lok Sabha polls results are announced.

A young BJP worker was found hanging from a tree in West Bengal's Purulia this morning, in what the party alleged was a political murder linked to the violent civic polls in the state earlier this month. 20-year-old Trilochan Mahato was hanging by his own trousers.

At a three-hour long session in Delhi today, BJP chief Amit Shah, accompanied by various power point presentations , met 31 of the party's top leaders including ministers to brief them on his strategy for dominating the 2019 general election. In short, his credo: focus on seats the BJP didn't win last time.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has swept all seven urban local bodies for which elections were held in West Bengal on Sunday. Of a total 148 wards, the Trinamool has won a massive 140 and the BJP six. The Left's seat was won by the Forward Bloc, while the CPM and Congress drew a blank.

Major opposition parties in West Bengal have demanded cancellation of elections to the seven municipal bodies held today, alleging widespread violence and booth-capturing by Trinamool Congress workers.

The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has left no stone unturned to ensure its victory in all the civic bodies

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's latest victory - her Trinamool Congress has taken four of seven municipal bodies in Bengal where elections were held - is made sweeter by a win in Mirik in the hills of Darjeeling, a stronghold for years of BJP ally the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).

Describing the violence and "rampant irregularities" in Sunday's civic polls as a "mockery of democracy", CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday slammed West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress for its "blatant misuse" of the state machinery.