Bengal Election

BJP's "Polarisation Politics" Helped Mamata Banerjee: Adhir Chowdhury

India News | Asian News International | Sunday June 20, 2021

West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said the BJP's "polarisation politics" has damaged the Congress massively, but helped Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the recently held Assembly elections.

Bengal Congress Meets To Discuss Assembly Election Results

India News | Asian News International | Sunday June 20, 2021

The West Bengal unit of Congress party on Saturday held a meeting with all the district presidents of the state to discuss the recently concluded state Assembly election results.

Mithun Chakraborty Questioned By Kolkata Police Over Election Speech

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday June 16, 2021

Actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty was questioned by the police in Bengal today in a controversy over one of his speeches during the Bengal election campaign.

Mamata Banerjee Set To Contest From Earlier Seat After Losing Nandigram

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Friday May 21, 2021

Mamata Banerjee, who swept the Bengal election but lost her own contest in Nandigram, is set to return to the seat she gave up in favour of challenging her former aide Suvendu Adhikari in his stronghold.

Congress Should Have Aligned With Trinamool In Bengal: Veerappa Moily

India News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 19, 2021

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily today said his party should have struck an alliance with Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool in the recent West Bengal elections, even as he expressed anguish over "ad-hocism" in the grand old outfit.

All 77 BJP MLAs In Bengal To Have Central Security Cover: Report

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 11, 2021

All the newly elected 77 BJP MLAs in West Bengal are being provided a cover of central security forces in view of potential threats to them, official sources said on Monday.

Opinion: The Cost Of BJP's All-Or-Nothing Bengal Campaign

Opinion | Nalini Singh | Monday May 10, 2021

Of course the party has lavished its own corpus of 'donations' on the polls, but in the still of the night, when ambulance sirens wail, does the BJP brass wonder if its Bengal mission was worth it?

Veterans, First-Timers Take Oath, Join Mamata Banerjee's New Cabinet

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Monday May 10, 2021

Forty-three ministers weresworn in todayas part of Mamata Banerjee's team as she begins her third term as Chief Minister of West Bengal.

"Mamata Banerjee Is Leader Of Our Country Today": Congress's Kamal Nath

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday May 6, 2021

Congress leader Kamal Nath on Wednesday described Mamata Banerjee as the leader of the country who defeated all her opponents, including PM Modi and Central agencies like the CBI and the ED, in the recently-held Assembly elections in West Bengal.

No "Impurity" In Counting Process For Bengal's Nandigram Seat: Election Body

India News | ANI | Tuesday May 4, 2021

The Election Commission has said that the Returning Officer (RO) is the "final authority under the law" in the matter of recounting in the Nandigram assembly constituency.

Sharad Pawar To Work For Unity Of Opposition Parties: Maharashtra Minister

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 4, 2021

After the Bengal assembly election results, the Nationalist Congress Party said its chief Sharad Pawar will try to form a united front of opposition parties, especially of regional outfits.

Highlights: People Have Shown BJP Can Be Defeated, Says Mamata Banerjee

India News | Edited by Ridhima Shukla | Tuesday May 4, 2021

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee told NDTV that the people have shown that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can be defeated.

Mamata Banerjee For PM? What She Said To NDTV

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday May 4, 2021

The Bengal election results have proved that the BJP can be defeated and people have shown the way, Mamata Banerjee said today on her remarkable victory. "They need political oxygen," she quipped in an exclusive interview to NDTV. The Chief Minister

Opinion: Mamata Is Souring Her Victory With Anti-BJP Violence

Opinion | Swati Chaturvedi | Tuesday May 4, 2021

Banerjee needs to publicly call for an end to the violence and demonstrate that she means it.

Mamata Banerjee Appeals For Calm After 12 Killed In Post-Poll Violence

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Tuesday May 4, 2021

Within 24 hours of elections results, at least a dozen people have been reported dead in post poll violence in Bengal, a figure that may be higher than the number of those killed during the month-long polls.