The Election Commission published the draft rolls on December 16, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists in West Bengal, with 58,20,899 electors, accounting for 7.59 per cent, deleted due to death, being untraceable, or permanent migration.
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Legislative Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday, spoke to Rabilal Chandra Das, the father of Hindu worker Dipu Chandra Das, who was brutally beaten to death and set ablaze by a mob in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh.
"Mamata Banerjee is trying to woo the WBCS Officers who are overseeing the SIR Exercise and in a subtle manner trying to remind them how they have benefited from this State Govt and in a veiled way tried to make them aware of the possibility that they will have to sit and discuss about th
Addressing the media in Patna, Singh described the developments in Bangladesh as "unfortunate" and drew a controversial comparison with Pakistan. "What has happened in Bangladesh is unfortunate. Bangladesh has taken the path of Pakistan, and I believe that some people in Bengal are imagin
Trinamool Congress MP Shatrughan Sinha said that suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir's new party, Janata Unnayan Party, will not make any difference in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly election, citing AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's failure.
Former TMC MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after launching a new political party named Janata Unnayan Party, and asserted that the Trinamool Congress Party would be reduced to zero in Murshidabad.
Stepping up her attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with assembly polls in West Bengal months away, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged the opposition party in the state wants to remove the names of 1.5 crore voters.
Siddiqui also launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of following a path similar to Bangladesh's and of promoting radicalisation for vote-bank politics. "If this continues, West Bengal will also not be safe, and Mamata Banerjee is no less th
"Before every election, Mamta Banerjee and Prime Minister Modi play a game. They both play a game against each other to mislead the common people, sometimes using NRC, sometimes SIR, and sometimes referring to the current situation," Chowdhury said on Saturday.
Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of stalling the state's development, West Bengal Minister and TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya alleged that the Prime Minister was misleading the nation and such plans would not succeed.
Ghosh said, "Mamata Banerjee's government and her MLAs understand that Muslim votes are shifting away from them. That's why they have adopted this tactic of appeasement by insulting Hindutva and Lord Rama." She further questioned TMC's role in the freedom struggle.