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Significantly, the BJP’s seat tally has gone down to 12 of West Bengal’s 42 parliamentary seats, a decline from 18 in 2019.

The bail was granted against a personal bond of Rs 2,000 in connection with a case registered against him by the Techno City police station, based on a complaint lodged by the restaurant owner Anisul Alam.

Reacting to the issue, Gurung said that he would appeal against the order while calling it a “political conspiracy”.

North Sikkim has been completely isolated due to the landslides on National Highway 10, the lifeline connecting the region to Kalimpong in West Bengal.

This after Malviya served a legal notice to him for “making false and defamatory allegations”.

The ECI had on March 18 removed Rajeev Kumar, as the state DGP two days after the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections was announced

Videos of the animal strolling as BJP MP Durga Das Uikey took oath as MoS were shared across several social media platforms

Malviya, through his advocate, sent a legal notice to Sinha on June 8, asking him to take down the "false and derogatory" post made a day earlier.

angladesh MP Anwarul Azim was last seen at a rented flat in Kolkata's New Town area on May 13.

Shantanu Thakur belongs to the Thakur family, which heads the Matua sect and has been involved in politics

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They all lost to Samajwadi Party candidates by significant margins of over 20,000 votes.

Police also said that a shop belonging to the daughter of a CPI(M) leader was allegedly ransacked in Durgapur.

Of the six Matua-dominated seats in Bengal, the BJP retained two and lost one. In Cooch Behar, sitting MP and Union Minister of State Nisith Praminik lost to TMC candidate Jagdish Chandra Basunia.

Meanwhile, former Medinipur MP and senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said the party needs to examine why it could not maintain its momentum of growth in Bengal after the last assembly polls.

Adhir Ranjan blamed the BJP’s “polarisation” for his defeat.

With Muslims forming over 50 per cent of the population, Basirhat has traditionally been a TMC bastion.

In the 2021 Assembly polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had lost the election from Nandigram by a margin of 1,956 votes.

Polling was held in nine Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal in the final phase.

TMC MP Sougata Roy, who is seeking re-election from the Dum Dum Lok Sabha seat for a fourth consecutive term, also rejected the exit poll predictions.

The TMC has fielded senior leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay from Kolkata Uttar.