Desperately searching for some issue to turn into a poll plank, the Left Front has grabbed the 2011 Census report with both hands as a Godsend. Last week when the census report 2011 of Bengal was offi

Desperately searching for some issue to turn into a poll plank, the Left Front has grabbed the 2011 Census report with both hands as a godsend. Last week when the census report 2011 of Bengal was officially released, the CPI(M) satraps immediately started poring over its details.

The resounding success of chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s maiden roadshow on Saturday seems to have galvanised the beleaguered Left Front workers. The CPI(M) cadres, in particular, who were earlier campaigning rather listlessly and even half-heartedly have suddenly become more determined.

After he successfully led the ruling Left Front to massive victories in the last two Assembly elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has established his position as the star cam

Displaying remarkable political astuteness, the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, which is fighting for a separate Gorkhaland in the Hills, is simultaneously supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congre

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been chief minister of West Bengal for over 10 years and before that he occupied important ministeriat berths in Jyoti Basu’s Cabinet for over two decades and yet he does not own any movable or immovable assets but Sovan Chatterjee, who had been mayor of Kolkata for one year and was a councillor in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation for the past few years, owns assets worth `5 crore jointly with his wife.

Desperate to reach out to millions of voters ahead of the most challenging Assembly election, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is also relying on the virtual world.

The Trinamul Congress chief, Ms Mamata Banerjee, has asked the sons and daughters of party leaders to campaign for party candidates, not willing to give even an inch to the CPM. On Sunday, offsprings of the important CPM leader, late Anil Biswas, Mr Gautam Deb, Mr Shyamal Chakraborty and Mr Suryakanta Mishra, extensively

They are uncle and nephew. They had contested against each other in 2010 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election from ward number 65. Both had lost but that has not deterred them from fighting against each other again. Their claim to fame: they are both related to Rizwanur Rahman whose mysterious death in 2007 which both insist was murder, had sent shockwaves in the entire state.

Will the Left Front wrest back Kolkata Port constituency from the Opposition?
This speculation is gaining ground because the crucial seat in the port area is set to witness a three-cornered fight as a result of which a division in the anti-Left vote appears imminent. The Kolkata Port is a new constituency which has come into existence due to delimitation.