Defending his industrialisation drive, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said that he had wanted to make Nandigram into another Haldia, a prominent industrial town with a port but the Trinamul Congress had sabotaged his plans through a sustained misinformation campaign. Addressing election rallies in Heria

Tearing into chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for sharing stage with “censured” CPI(M) leader Anil Basu at an election rally at Arambagh in Hooghly district, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said that their bonhomie exposed the duplicity of the Marxists. “The CPI(M) has a real face and also a mask. One is white and the other black. One will call someone a thief and the other will reprimand him,” she alleged. She was addressing an election rally at Pandua in Highly

Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Friday said that their leaders are in touch with All-India United Democratic Front leaders who are also willing to have an alliance with the Congress for formation of government in Assam.

The Election Commission (EC) has started deployment of the Central paramilitary forces in Jangalmahal to foil any attempt of the Maoists to disrupt the polling process. In the sixth phase on May 10, 14 Assembly constituencies which are considered as Maoist-infested will go to polls. Unlike other phases, the EC will deploy around 150 companies of the Central forces well in advance in the areas which fall under the jurisdiction of these constituencies.

Clearly irked by the CPI(M)’s persistent propaganda about use of black money by the Trinamul Congress, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday hinted that when she came to power she would probe all the financial irregularities committed by the Left Front government in the past 34 years. “How can they accuse us of stealing money

Two days after arch rival Mamata Banerjee stormed the area, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday campaigned in this rural belt and charged the Trinamool Congress with blocking industrialisation by misleading the people.

CPI(M) central committee member Gautam Deb on Thursday said that he submitted to the EC evidence of his charges that the Trinamul Congress was using black money in the ongoing Assembly election. Mr Deb accompanied by former mayor of Kolkata and lawyer Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya and party leader Rabin Deb met the

The direction of the EC to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to probe the alleged expenditure violation by the Trinamul Congress in the Assembly elections has pushed the party onto the backfoot ahead of the remaining three phases of the six-phase polls.

Streets of Kolkata and its suburbs wore a deserted look on Wednesday as virtually no public buses were plying.
The number of taxis was also too few. Most of the shops and markets in the city were also closed. Metro rail was the only lifeline of the city commuters. However, suburban train services in both Howrah and Sealdah divisions were normal.

Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee directly accused chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of engineering rigging in his Jadavpur constituency.
“He has always won through rigging and even today, his party cadres have indulged in rigging,” she said, adding that she was not making these allegations without evidence. The Trinamul Congress would lodge a complaint with the Election Commission, she added.