The Trinamool Congress was headed for victory in West Bengal on Friday, with former Marxist leader and Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee saying the "opposition was coming to power".

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, all set to take over the reins of power in West Bengal, on Friday requested party allies Congress and Left opposition Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), to join her government.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi will take the final decision on the party's participation in the new government in West Bengal after discussing with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

Even after directive of the Supreme Court to set up 71 new special CBI courts in the country including two in Assam, more than 150 corruption cases of CBI are pending for trial due to non-appointment of a regular judge in the existing special CBI court in Assam.

The exit polls predicting an impressive hat-trick for the ruling Congress Party have failed to discourage the Opposition Asom Gana Parishad, BJP and AIUDF in working out strategy for a non-Congress government in Assam.

Former chief minister and AGP leader Prafulla Kumar Mahanta here on Tuesday said that many IAS officers, who were pro-actively involved in the misrule of the Congress Party, are seeking to flee the state by taking deputation outside the state.

Unfazed by the prediction of the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance’s sweeping victory, Left Front chairman Biman Bose on Tuesday dismissed the exit poll results as “bogus”. Referring to the exit poll results of the Assembly polls of 2001 and 2006, which eventually turned out to be “big jokes”, Mr Bose asserted that the Left Front forming the government for the eighth term is only a matter of time.

No violence. No killing. No Maoist attack. Polling in 14 Assembly constituencies, which are considered as Maoist-infested ones, in West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia was totally peaceful. Around 85 per cent voters cast their franchise in the last phase of the six-phased elections in West Bengal. An unprecedented security blanket was

Trinamul Congress general secretary Mukul Roy on Monday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission, demanding removal of officers-in-charge of three police stations in Jangalmahal because of their partisan behaviour. The sixth and the last phase of polling will be held in 14 Assembly constituencies in Jangalmahal.

In the last phase of the six-phased Assembly elections in West Bengal, 14 constituencies in the Maoist-infested areas in West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura will go to polls on Tuesday under unprecedented security arrangements. In these 14 constituencies, 26,57,434 voters will decide the fate of 97 candidates, including ministers like Susanta Ghosh, Rabilal Maitra and Debalina Hembram and PCPA leader Chhatradhar Mahato, who is close to the CPI(Maoist) and is now in jail custody.