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Both the TMC and BJP have gauged the growing discontent in Dalit and tribal communities, and have made various attempts to woo them.

The HC said the EC has not utilised its power, saying, “The EC has forgotten TN Seshan. Let EC function like it did during the time of Seshan.”

In a letter to Prime Minister Modi, Mamata Banerjee said the policy does not address issues like stable flow of supply of required number of vaccines by the manufacturers and also the price at which vaccines are to be purchased by the States.

Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, who has won 7 straight elections, is fighting from Mamata’s Bhabanipur. He says he will win easily because of the work done by the CM

Rezaul Haque was initially admitted to a private hospital in Jangipur on Wednesday, but later referred to a medial facility in Kolkata after his condition deteriorated at night.

The Election Commission has deployed at least 789 companies of central armed police force (CAPF) in 15,940 polling stations spread over the 44 constituencies.

Modi said the CM will lose Nandigram. He invited her to Kashi, saying the people there are large-hearted, though Banerjee might find them chanting Jai Shri Ram.

The passengers have also been asked to maintain social distancing and use sanitisers as per the Covid-19 guidelines.

Modi also claimed that the first phase of West Bengal assembly elections has already decided that now no one can stop ‘asol parivartan’ (real change) in the state.

The TMC said there was nothing wrong even if Mamata Banerjee had called Pralay Pal, a former TMC worker.

In an exclusive interview, AK Abdul Momen says his country wants to start a "mahajatra" with India because peace and prosperity can't happen without holding each other's hands.

While no one was named in the purported speech by Ghosh, known for his controversial comments in the past, most commentators took the comments to be directed at Banerjee.

BJP-nominated Subrata Saha, a strategist from Balakot, as its candidate in Rasbihari, incites the memory of Balakot.

CCTV footage revealed that Biswajit Babu's daughter poured kerosene on him and set him on fire while he was asleep in the park.

While releasing the BJP's Sankalpa Patra on Sunday, union home minister Amit Shah said that women have been at the forefront of the Centre’s development agenda.

The chief minister also warned of goons hired by the saffron party to scare people into voting for BJP.