The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, approached the Governor and top state officials on Monday to request the extension of central forces' deployment beyond the Model Code of Conduct period.
An officer from the ED came to one Babul Das' residence along with central forces on Monday. Since Das was not at home, the officer gave a notice to his family after speaking to them for about an hour. Babul Das's mother and uncle were at his place.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in the country, Punjab Police along with central forces on Tuesday conducted a flag march in the Ranjit Avenue area in Amritsar.
Varinder Singh Khosa, ACP North Amritsar said, "Today the police along with central paramilitary forces are conducting a flag mar
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Agnimitra Paul said on Monday that if adequate central forces are not deployed at the booths, then it would be difficult to hold elections in West Bengal.
"I am telling all the BSF, paramilitary to stay within the law. We will also stay within the law. Let the elections be free and fair. If paramilitary tries to intimidate, tell them that I am Prasun Banerjee. Main hoon na'," Banerjee said while campaigning on Sunday, a video of which was s
Bharatiya Janata Party IT cell head Amit Malviya slammed Trinamool Congress's Lok Sabha candidate from Malda North seat, Prasun Banerjee, over his remarks on the central forces and the poll body and said he exemplifies all that is wrong with the West Bengal police.
West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday wrote a letter to the Election Commission requesting the central forces to come to the state before the upcoming general elections in March. He emphasised that the locals were losing faith in the state police, adding to which he
A total of 3.40 lakh Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel are likely to be deployed during the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as well as the assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha and Sikkim, officials said.
"The counting of votes for Mizoram assembly polls will take place on December 3, as decided by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in various districts. All the voting machines are securely placed in the strong rooms in various districts. We will be helping out the civil administration wi
"If we call it a mosque, there will be a dispute. We should just call it Gyanvapi. I feel whoever has been blessed with sight by God, that person should see. What is a trishul (trident) doing inside a mosque? We did not put it there. There is security inside, there are Central forces are