West Bengal Assembly polls

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Bengal elections 3 months away, a new BJP team in place

January 08, 2026 7:51 am

No big surprises in the 34-member team formed six months after Samik Bhattacharya was appointed state unit chief

PM Modi sounds poll bugle in West Bengal: ‘End TMC jungle raj, bring double-engine govt’

December 21, 2025 8:12 am

Addressing a gathering in Taherpur over the phone, as his helicopter was unable to land due to low visibility, Modi also accused the TMC of opposing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to protect “infiltrators”.

West Bengal draft rolls: Seats with sizable Hindi speakers see high voter deletions, Muslim-dominated seats largely unaffected

December 17, 2025 7:05 am

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s constituency Bhabanipur and Mayor Firhad Hakim's seat Kolkata Port among 10 seats with most deletions

BJP MP's gaffe over Bengali freedom fighter gives TMC fresh ammo: Who was Matangini Hazra?

December 14, 2025 11:10 am

Seizing on Dinesh Sharma's remark in Parliament that Matangini Hazra had raised the Vande Mataram slogan “despite being a Muslim”, TMC called BJP “Bangla birodhi (anti-Bengali)” and “bahiragoto (outsiders)”

West Bengal voter list: EPIC-mobile number link mandatory for online submission of SIR forms | Step-by-Step guide to link your EPIC and mobile number

November 12, 2025 3:08 pm

West Bengal voter list, SIR Form: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has enabled online submission of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) 2026 electoral roll in West Bengal.

West Bengal SIR 2025 | SIR 2025 begins: Here's what voters and BLOs need to know

November 06, 2025 3:26 pm

West Bengal SIR 2025 Voter List, Form, documents list, Eligibility: The Election Commission of India (ECI) kicked off the SIR process across the state this week.

BJP twin strategy for polls: ‘Ensure no Hindu names deleted during SIR, focus on 160 seats’

October 10, 2025 6:22 am

At the high-level meeting chaired by BJP Bengal in-charge Bhupendra Yadav and attended by Biplab Deb, the focus was on expanding its win in south, while retaining north

With Amit Shah’s counsel, Bengal BJP gets down to drawing Assembly poll roadmap

August 06, 2025 9:16 am

Union Home Minister is learnt to have advised state unit to focus on allaying concerns about SIR, counter TMC narrative that BJP is anti-Bengali

BJP MLA Soumen Roy back in TMC

September 05, 2021 5:03 am

Earlier, Mukul Roy MLA from Krishnanagar Uttar, Biswajit Das, MLA from Bagda, Tanmoy Ghosh, MLA from Bishnupur, left BJP to join Trinamool. All four were with Trinamool in the past and had switched to BJP.

Bengal polls, spanning over a month, come to an end amid soaring Covid cases

April 30, 2021 7:32 am

The Sitalkuchi firing escalated the war of words between TMC and BJP — while West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called for Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation, Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh described the four people killed in the police firing as "bad boys".

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