As soon as Majumdar got off the train at Balurghat railway station at 7 am on Monday, BJP leaders and workers gathered around him. Majumdar campaigned by driving a motorcycle for about three kilometres amid slogans.
The second meeting of the Congress party's Central Election Committee (CEC) will be held at the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi on Monday evening.
The Bishnupur constituency of West Bengal's Bankura district will witness a face-off between former couple Sujata Mondal of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Saumitra Khan, the BJP's candidate, in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Meenakshi Arora, former Standing Counsel to the Election Commission of India on Sunday said that citizens are entitled to know why Arun Goel resigned as the Election Commissioner just before the announcement of Lok Sabha polls.
"I've served the people of Thiruvananthapuram for 15 years. They know me and have seen my service. It's not as if I've got anything to be ashamed of in my track record. I've been consistently available and attended to all the major issues," Shashi Tharoor said.
Abandoning the Mallikarjun Kharge-led INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress on Sunday announced its candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal for the upcoming general elections.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, former Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ravindra Waikar joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, in Mumbai on Sunday.
Former Union Minister and BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde said that his party needs a total of 400 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls if any changes are to be made in the Constitution.
Ahead of the upcoming polls, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged the voters in Kurukshetra not to get trapped and vote just to elect the Prime Minister, referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi but to elect an MP who works for the people during tough times.
In the meeting, partners of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from Maharashtra, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Haryana, and Bihar are likely to discuss seat sharing with the BJP's top leadership tomorrow.
After the Trinamool Congress (TMC) dumped Congress by announcing its candidates for all 42 seats in West Bengal, including a surprise nomination for Yousuf Pathan from the Berhampore Lok Sabha seat for the upcoming polls, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday claimed t
Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy on Sunday urged people to vote cautiously in polls as voting for Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief Chandrababu Naidu would jeopardise all welfare schemes in the state.