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West Bengal Minister says Left-Cong don't have strength, only TMC can take
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Bankura (West Bengal) [India], February 14 (ANI): West Bengal Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Tapas Roy has said that the Left-Congress alliance doesn't have the strength to put up a fight against the BJP and claimed that only his party chief Mamata Banerjee can take them on.
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Traditional art form Patachitra gets infused with politics as WB assembly
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 13 (ANI): With politics intensifying in West Bengal ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, the state's approximately 250-year-old art form "Patachitra" (cloth-based scroll painting) depicting mythological anecdotes has refashioned with political fig
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TMC MLA Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay expresses inability to contest West Benga
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 10 (ANI): All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from Bardhaman Dakshin Dr Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay wrote a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stating that he will not contest the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly election 2021 citing poor heal
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No alliance with ISF if it joins hands with AIMIM, says West Bengal Congre
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 6 (ANI): Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and senior Congress leader Abdul Mannan on Saturday said the party will not forge an alliance with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) if the latter joins hands with the AIMIM.
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Bengal Congress seeks Sonia Gandhi's nod for alliance with ISF
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections later this year, the state unit of the Congress has sought permission from the party's central leadership to start a dialogue with Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui's newly launched party Indian Secular Front
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Court hasn't stayed West Bengal Rath Yatra, administration can't stop it:
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 5 (ANI): With a PIL being filed in Calcutta High Court to stop BJP's Rath Yatra ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls due to COVID-19, BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday said that the court hasn't given stay order on "Rath Yatra" so the
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TMC's Dipak Haldar joins BJP
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], February 2 (ANI): Another Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Dipak Haldar joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls this year.
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Need to be more vigilant for illegal border crossing ahead of Bengal polls
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 29 (ANI): As West Bengal Assembly elections are due later this year, there is a need to be even more vigilant for any kind of illegal border crossing, said Pankaj Kumar Singh, Special DG Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday.
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'TMC dangerous for our democracy', says Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 28 (ANI): As the resolution against the Centre's farm laws has been passed in the West Bengal Assembly on Thursday, state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Dilip Ghosh slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government terming it 'dangerous' for de
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West Bengal Assembly passes resolution against farm laws, BJP MLAs walk ou
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 28 (ANI): The West Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution against the three agricultural laws enacted by the Central Government.
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Bengal Assembly seat sharing: Cong to contest on 193 seats, Left Front get
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 28 (ANI): After two rounds of meetings, a seat-sharing agreement for 193 of the total 294 seats in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections was finalised between Congress and the Left parties on Thursday.
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Congress, Left to discuss seat-sharing for West Bengal Assembly polls toda
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 28 (ANI): The Congress and Left parties will hold a joint meeting today at 11:30 am to discuss seat-sharing for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly elections, the Congress said.
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