Mamata banerjee
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Bengal’s 65-seat faultline: How SIR deletions could decide who forms govt
Kolkata: West Bengal’s 2026 election may be decided not by the arithmetic of 294 seats that dominate campaign speeches, but by around 65-70 constituencies where victory and defeat are separated by little…
- India
SIR country’s biggest scam in recent times: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, April 12, alleged that the BJP bribes voters before elections, and called the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls the “country’s biggest…
- Kolkata
Suvendu’s firm grip, ‘skewed’ SIR deletions likely deciders in Nandigram
Kolkata: Shifting loyalties, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) strengthened organisational control and allegations of skewed Special Intensive Revision (SIR) voter deletions seem to have added extra layers of intrigue to Nandigram, making the…
- Kolkata
AIMIM withdraws from alliance with Humayun Kabir after TMC video row
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Friday, April 10, announced that it has withdrawn its alliance with Humayun Kabir’s party and will contest the upcoming West Bengal elections independently, citing concerns…
- India
EC-Trinamool meet ends on bitter note, CEC tells party leaders to ‘get lost’
New Delhi: The meeting between a Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation and the full bench of the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, April 8, culminated on an acrimonious note, with the TMC saying the…
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95 pc of deleted voters are Muslims in West Bengal’s Nandigram SIR
Kolkata: Muslims have accounted for 95.5 per cent of voters deleted from seven Special Intensive Revision (SIR) supplementary lists in West Bengal’s Nandigram. According to the Sabar Institute, a Kolkata-based public policy…
- India
Names of people belonging to Matua, minority communities deleted: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, April 7, alleged that names of people belonging to the Matua and minority communities were deleted from the post-SIR voter rolls in the…
- India
Bengal polls: Owaisi all guns against CM Mamata on Muslim representation
Patna: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday criticised West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for “unsatisfactory” representation of Muslims in the government sector in the state, and questioned their socio-economic conditions during the…
- Kolkata
Malda gherao reflects TMC’s maha jungleraj: Modi in Bengal
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made the Malda gherao of judicial officers the fulcrum of the BJP’s campaign on lawlessness in West Bengal, accusing the TMC government of running a…
- India
Bengal polls: Mamata calls for ‘revenge’ over voter list deletions
Samserganj: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, April 5, urged people to cast their votes to “take revenge” for the deletion of people’s names from the electoral rolls. The Trinamool…
- Kolkata
Bengal: Anti-SIR protests rise, Mamata says BJP plotting unrest
Kolkata: Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on…
- India
Calculated attempt: SC raps Bengal after judicial officers held hostage for SIR
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday, April 2, took suo motu cognisance of the gheraoing of seven judicial officers, including three women, by a mob in West Bengal’s Malda district during the…
- India
Mamata blames EC for ‘failing to protect’ judicial officers
Sagardighi: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, April 2, blamed the Election Commission for “failing to protect” judicial officers engaged in the SIR exercise in West Bengal’s Malda district. Seven judicial officers…
- India
Bengal’s existence at stake due to infiltration: Shah
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday, April 2, alleged that infiltration has increased to such an extent that Bengal’s existence is at stake. Addressing an election rally here, he also…
- India
Be cautious while filing nominations: Mamata to TMC nominees
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, April 1, alleged that newly appointed officials by the Election Commission were entrusted to reject nominations of her party candidates and urged them to…
