Assembly Elections 2021

Expressing anguish over non-adherence to Covid guidelines in election rallies in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Thursday ordered a ban on physical campaigning except public meetings with a gathering of up to 500 people.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he won't visit West Bengal on Friday as he will chair high-level meetings on Covid-19 situation in Delhi. The Prime Minister was scheduled to attend a rally in Kolkata's Shaheed Minar on Friday.

The Election Commission on Thursday dismissed allegations by Trinamool Congress that two of their activists were injured in firing by central forces in Ashok Nagar assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district.

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Boosting the confidence of his party workers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said his Bharatiya Janata Party has crossed 100 seats in the four of eight phases of ongoing West Bengal assembly elections.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders, said on Monday that those threatening of more Cooch Behar-like killings should be banned politically.

PM Modi while campaigning in Bardhaman for the Bengal election that is half-way through attacked CM Mamata Banerjee and said she has been clean bowled in Nandigram where she contested from against BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Sunday warned that there will be similar incidents like in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi  if bad boys do not behave in the coming election phases.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who attended public rallies across poll-bound West Bengal on Sunday, said slammed chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the killings in Cooch Behar.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called the killings of 4 people in CISF firing during polling on Saturday in Cooch Behar a genocide. She said it was a genocide because the central forces 'sprayed' bullets on the people.

After killing of five people, the Election Commission has banned entry of politicians in Cooch Behar for next 72 hours, saying it could cause law and order issues in the area. 

A war of words erupted between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday after five people were killed during polling in Cooch Behar, including four in firing by the CISF.

There would be repolling at 4 polling booths of Assam on April 20, according to the Election commission. Repolling will be held at the polling stations in Ratabari, Sonai and Haflong constituencies. 

The Election Commission Saturday adjourned voting in Polling Station 126 of Sitalkurchi seat in Cooch Behar after a clash between political workers and subsequent firing allegedly by CISF officers led to the death of five people in two separate incidents.

Rajya Sabha MP of the Trinamool Congress and the party's leader in parliament, Derek O'Brien lashed out at the BJP over poll violence in West Bengal's Cooch Behar, where 4 people have died due to firing by CISF forces. Another man who was killed in a separate incident took the total death toll to 5 in the area.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled the deaths of 5 men in West Bengal's Cooch Behar. In a tweet PM said, what happened in Cooch Behar is very saddening.

An elderly woman shows her finger after casting her vote outside a polling station during the state legislative elections, at South Twenty Four Parganas district, about 70 km from Kolkata on April 6, 2021. Photo courtesy: DIBYANGSHU SARKAR / AFP

• West Bengal: 34.7%
• Assam: 32.1%
• Kerala: 31.48%
• Tamil Nadu: 21%
• Puducherry: 35.7%

Describing all 31 West Bengal assembly constituencies where polls will be held on Tuesday as 'sensitive', the Election Commission on Monday imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday took an autorickshaw ride to two places in Kerala, on the last day of campaign for the April 6 Assembly polls.

Veteran actor and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan is in Kolkata to campaign for the Trinamool Congress during the ongoing Assembly election.

The Election Commission on Sunday responded to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s allegations of voter intimidation at Nandigram booth during the second phase of assembly elections on April 1.

BJP candidate Paayel Sarkar was allegedly attacked by supporters of the Trinamool Congress on Sunday. The incident took place in Thakurpukur area of Behala in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district.

A bitter war of words has started between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP over a purported video that is doing the rounds of social media, in which West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is seen shaking her plastered leg while sitting on a wheelchair.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused the BJP of engineering communal strife in the state to win the assembly elections.

Reacting to the controversy that broke about after Election Commission officials were found transporting EVMs in a the car of a BJP candidate in Assam, Home Minister Amit Shah said that the poll panel must take action as per law.

Prime minister Narednra Modi stopped his speech midway in Assam on Saturday after a BJP worker fell ill during his rally in Tamulpur.

Covid-19 has spoiled the usual crowded culmination to the weeks-long poll campaigning in Kerala. The Election Commission has banned the years-long practice in the wake of the virus spread in the state.

Expect political fireworks in West Bengal later today as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Mamata Banerjee are slated to address rallies in Hooghly district in the afternoon.

Mamata Banerjee on Friday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his taunt implying the Bengal Chief Minister was looking for a second constituency to contest from because she was scared of losing from Nandigram.

Reacting to the incident, DMK chief MK Stalin said the people will punish those who are trying to incite violence in the state. He further said it is shameful that the government is not able to put a full stop to such incidents.

In a fresh attack on opposition parties in Kerala, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that during the rule of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Left Democratic Front (LDF), the governance took a backseat and dynastic politics was promoted.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday while addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu ahead of the assembly election on April 6, played the Jallikattu card and accused the DMK and Congress of disrespecting and outlawing the practice which has been part of state's culture for centuries.

What's an election campaign without political potshots? As Prime minister Narendra Modi campaigned in Tamil Nadu on Friday, a number of DMK candidates took to twitter in a coordinated campaign sarcastically urging the PM to campaign for the BJP or AIADMK candidates in their respective seats.

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The convoy of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was attacked in Bengal's Nandigram on Thursday afternoon.

Election Commission of India: 33.24% polling in Assam, 37.42% polling in West Bengal, till 1.02pm.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the people of Assam will show red card to Congress and its allies in the Assembly elections.

A BJP worker was found hanging at his home in Nandigram in West Bengal on Thursday in a suspected case of suicide.