The Prime Minister slammed Congress and TMC over their "silence" on the "vote jihad" remark and urged the people to vote for the development of the country.
Amid Lok Sabha Elections, TMC MLA Humayun Kabir has created a new stir with his controversial statement. He has threatened to drown Hindus in the Bhagirathi river and has also warned the BJP.
Hours after Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh shared a stage with a BJP Lok Sabha candidate and praised him, the TMC removed him from the post of state general secretary for making statements not aligning with the party.
Lok Sabha elections 2024: Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remarks, captured in a video shared by BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla, prompted swift reactions from both within and outside the Congress party.
Kunal Ghosh’s dismissal comes as a result of his divergence from the party’s official positions on certain matters.
Mamata Banerjee raised alarms about the sudden surge in poll percentages reported by the Election Commission’s latest figures. She cautioned against the reliability of the electoral process, citing the unexplained jump in voter turnout and the absence of several EVMs.
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Abhijit Das to take on Trinamool heavyweight and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee in Diamond Harbour.
Home Minister Amit Shah's attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee comes amid an intense poll campaign in the state. West Bengal's four constituencies - Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur and Murshidabad will undergo polling in the third phase on May 7.
Chunav Flashback: The interesting part of the 1998 Lok Sabha election in West Bengal was that the BJP and Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) contested polls in alliance against CPI(M) and Congress.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The fight is between TMC's Shatrugan Sinha, BJP's SS Ahluwalia and CPM Jahanara Khan in this constituency in the upcoming general elections. It will be interesting to watch who wins the seat.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Mahua Moitra is up against BJP's Amrita Roy and CPM's SM Saadi on the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat.
Mamata's remarks came after the CBI recovered arms and ammunition during searches at two premises of an associate of now-suspended TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali.
Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP and Congress over the issue and alleged that the leaders of these parties conspired which was evident from their reactions after the High Court's verdict.
"Under TMC rule, only one thing exists - scams totalling thousands of crores. The culprit is TMC, but the entire state is forced to pay for its deception," PM Modi said.
In the second phase, polls are underway for the strategically key parliamentary constituencies of Darjeeling, Raiganj and Balurghat. Raju Bista and Sukanta Majumdar from the BJP along with TMC's Biplab Mitra are the key candidates in the second phase.
Suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh was arrested by the state police on February 29, a day after the Calcutta High Court ordered that the CBI, ED or the West Bengal police could arrest him.
The general election for the 18 Lok Sabha in West Bengal will be held in all 7 phases. The polling for the second phase will take place on 26 April. The result will be declared on 4 June.
Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP is targeting her and Abhishek Banerjee and they were not feeling safe.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP's Raju Bista is the incumbent MP in Darjeeling, who defeated TMC's Amar Singh Rai in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Trinamool Congress has fielded Gopal Lama while the Indian National Congress has nominated Munish Tamang for the seat.
The Phase 1 of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections in West Bengal saw a resurgence of political violence, with both the BJP and TMC accusing each other of perpetrating violence and disrupting the electoral process.
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