Shah likely to visit city this month, set roadmap for polls
With the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections in sight, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun its preparations to strengthen its foothold in the state.
With the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections in sight, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has begun its preparations to strengthen its foothold in the state.
Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed Kolkata Police to register an FIR based on the complaint filed by Indranuj Roy, the student of Jadavpur University (JU) during the ruckus within the university campus on 1 March after being hit allegedly by the vehicle of education minister Bratya Basu.
Students across multiple universities and colleges, including Jadavpur University and the University of Calcutta, took to the streets in protest.
Following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s instructions, Trinamul Congress (TMC) leaders, including MP and MLAs, have begun scrutinising electoral rolls in their respective areas in Cooch Behar.
The Trinamul Congress has issued show cause notices to four sitting councillors for anti-party activities and directed to reply within seven days of Raghunathpur Municipality in Purulia district.
The Trinamul Congress national spokesperson Dr Shashi Panja and senior leader Dr Arup Chakraborty held a press meet on the Basirhat BJP leader joining the Trinamul and highlighted the BJP’s planned move to create trouble there.
Making a plea for an urgent listing of the petition on Monday, May 27, a lawyer appearing for the BJP told a bench of Justice Bela M Trivedi and Justice Pankaj Mithal that the High Court has restrained the BJP from issuing advertisements during the Lok Sabha polls till June 4, the day the election process ends.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath applauded the recent decision by the Calcutta High Court to cancel all Other Backward Class (OBC) certificates issued in West Bengal post-2010 and said that the unconstitutional decision by TMC in 2010 was scrapped by HC.
Siriya Parveen, BJP district general secretary of Basirhat joined the Trinamul Congress today in the presence of senior party leader and minister Shashi Panja.
The people of Bengal are likely to witness an interesting electoral battle in the 6th phase of general election which is scheduled to be held on 25 May.
