With the Assembly polls in his state later this year, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has begun reaching out to the aam janata.

Reacting to party leader Varum Gandhi’s remark that the SP will emerge as single largest party in UP election, the BJP responded with a remark that he is a “good psephologist” while its leader L.K.

Speculation is rife in the Congress circles here that former chief minister Ajit Jogi was being considered for the post of Uttar Pradesh governor in the wake of reports that the ongoing Assembly polls

The Mamata Banerjee-government in West Bengal is leaving no stone unturned to make the February 28 strike a flop show. The chief minister has asked the administration as well as her party to ensure that normal life is not disrupted in the state on Tuesday. She also instructed the administration to ensure normal attendance of the state government employees on that day.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to make it mandatory for all shops and business establishments in the city to put up signboards in Bengali besides other languages.

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to make it mandatory for all shops and business establishments in the city to put up signboards in Bengali besides other languages.

The CPI(M) is determined to gain maximum political mileage from the killing of two important leaders of Burdwan on Wednesday. The Alimuddin satraps want to showcase the gruesome murders as evidence of Trinamul Congress’ “intolerant and vindictive politics.”

In a major incident of political violence in West Bengal, two CPI(M) leaders, including a former MLA, were brutally killed in Burdwan’s Dewandighi area on Wednesday morning. The deceased, Pradip Tah and Kamal Gayen, were both CPI(M)’s distict committee members while the former was also the former MLA of Burdwan North constituency. Another CPI(M) worker and a Trinamul Congress worker were badly injured and were undergoing treatment.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee is determined to foil the bandh on February 28 and she is adopting a two-pronged strategy for this purpose. On the one hand, her government has on Tuesday issued a circular cancelling leaves of all government employees on that day and on the other, her party Trinamul Congress has decided to take to the streets to actively oppose the bandh. The Trinamul Congress apprehends that a successful bandh will further consolidate the CPI(M)’s position which has already got a shot in the arm by the huge success of its Brigade Parade Ground rally on Sunday.

Deeply disturbed by the Congress’ tirade against her government over the Park Street rape case, chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to draw Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s attention to what a state minister described as an act of betrayal by an ally.