Bengal Elections 2021
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'Delimitation, Not Women Quota, Real Issue': Sonia Gandhi On Special Session
Sonia Gandhi has said Centre wants to "bulldoze in a special session of Parliament when the election campaign in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal will be at its peak"
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West Bengal Poll Officer's Message To Voters Has A Durga Puja Reference
The upcoming elections follow the 2021 battle, where the TMC secured a landslide 213 seats. However, the BJP's growth from a minor player to 77 seats has set the stage for the current high-stakes confrontation.
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90 Lakh Voters Out of Bengal Lists, Trinamool Thinks Emergency Counter Strategy
The outcome of SIR has dismayed Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress, which won the 2021 assembly election with a margin of 42.4 lakh votes. In Kolkata, the prevailing concern within the party is how to recover the votes that have been struck off the rolls.
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'Another Outsider': Trinamool Takes A Dig As Tennis Legend Moves To BJP
Leander Paes had joined the Trinamool Congress in 2021 and campaigned for the Mamata Banerjee-led party ahead of the 2022 Goa election
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Gorkhas, Minorities, Rajbanshis: Decoding North Bengal's High-Stakes 2026 Contest
Dilip Ghosh, then chief of the BJP's state unit, had reached Darjeeling on February 24, 2021, with a mission: Counter Mamata Banerjee's strategy in the region and secure the seats in the area that would set off a ripple effect across north Bengal.
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Ground Report: Memories Of 2021 Tragedy Haunt Elections In This Bengal Seat
Sitalkuchi would have been another dot on the map of West Bengal, but for the tragic events of April 10, 2021.
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Opinion | A Northern Discomfort for Mamata Banerjee
In the last assembly elections in 2021, the TMC's wounds in North Bengal were visible not just in the arithmetic of seats but in the geometry of votes
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History Repeats Itself In Nandigram Where Suvendu Adhikari Faces His Ex-Aide
A top leader versus a former aide -- this was the script that played out in Bengal's Nandigram in the last assembly election, with dramatic results. This time, it is about a see a reprise, with an aide of the sitting MLA -- the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
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2021 Redux? Suvendu Adhikari Takes Fight To Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata Seat
The BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, who beat West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram in the last assembly election, wants a rematch -- this time in Bhabanipur, her current constituency.
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Poll Body's Rare Feat: Both Trinamool, BJP Happy With 2-Phase Bengal Polls
With the Election Commission announcing the schedule for the two-phase Assembly election in West Bengal, there is a sense of relief within the ruling Trinamool Congress, which did not want a prolonged election like the eight-phase polls back in 2021.
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'Delimitation, Not Women Quota, Real Issue': Sonia Gandhi On Special Session
Sonia Gandhi has said Centre wants to "bulldoze in a special session of Parliament when the election campaign in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal will be at its peak"
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West Bengal Poll Officer's Message To Voters Has A Durga Puja Reference
The upcoming elections follow the 2021 battle, where the TMC secured a landslide 213 seats. However, the BJP's growth from a minor player to 77 seats has set the stage for the current high-stakes confrontation.
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90 Lakh Voters Out of Bengal Lists, Trinamool Thinks Emergency Counter Strategy
The outcome of SIR has dismayed Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress, which won the 2021 assembly election with a margin of 42.4 lakh votes. In Kolkata, the prevailing concern within the party is how to recover the votes that have been struck off the rolls.
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'Another Outsider': Trinamool Takes A Dig As Tennis Legend Moves To BJP
Leander Paes had joined the Trinamool Congress in 2021 and campaigned for the Mamata Banerjee-led party ahead of the 2022 Goa election
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Gorkhas, Minorities, Rajbanshis: Decoding North Bengal's High-Stakes 2026 Contest
Dilip Ghosh, then chief of the BJP's state unit, had reached Darjeeling on February 24, 2021, with a mission: Counter Mamata Banerjee's strategy in the region and secure the seats in the area that would set off a ripple effect across north Bengal.
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Ground Report: Memories Of 2021 Tragedy Haunt Elections In This Bengal Seat
Sitalkuchi would have been another dot on the map of West Bengal, but for the tragic events of April 10, 2021.
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Opinion | A Northern Discomfort for Mamata Banerjee
In the last assembly elections in 2021, the TMC's wounds in North Bengal were visible not just in the arithmetic of seats but in the geometry of votes
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History Repeats Itself In Nandigram Where Suvendu Adhikari Faces His Ex-Aide
A top leader versus a former aide -- this was the script that played out in Bengal's Nandigram in the last assembly election, with dramatic results. This time, it is about a see a reprise, with an aide of the sitting MLA -- the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
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2021 Redux? Suvendu Adhikari Takes Fight To Mamata Banerjee's Kolkata Seat
The BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, who beat West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram in the last assembly election, wants a rematch -- this time in Bhabanipur, her current constituency.
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Poll Body's Rare Feat: Both Trinamool, BJP Happy With 2-Phase Bengal Polls
With the Election Commission announcing the schedule for the two-phase Assembly election in West Bengal, there is a sense of relief within the ruling Trinamool Congress, which did not want a prolonged election like the eight-phase polls back in 2021.
