West Bengal Elections 2021 highlights: It is not easy to break the spine of Bengal, says CM Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that she is not afraid of anyone and cannot be intimidated with jail or something else. Holding out a challenge without naming anyone or political party, the Trinamool Congress supremo said that they have not learnt to lose. CBI has issued notice to TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee's wife and sister-in-law in a coal pilferage case. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Monday and inaugurate an extension of the Kolkata Metro. The extension will lead to the Maa Kali temples in Kalighat and Dakshineswar.

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'There's only one game in 2021 & I will be goalkeeper'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that she is not afraid of anyone and cannot be intimidated with jail or something else. Holding out a challenge without naming anyone or political party, the Trinamool Congress supremo said that they have not learnt to lose.

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Won't be cowed down by CBI notice to wife: Abhishek Banerjee

West Bengal BJP lodges complaint with EC, Amit Shah over state police bias

Claiming that the ruling TMC had attacked its 'Parivartan Yatra' rally in North 24 Parganas district, the BJP's West Bengal unit on Sunday complained to the Election Commission and Union Home Minister Amit Shah accusing the state police of bias and not providing enough security to the participants.

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TMC, BJP take jibes at each other with parody music videos ahead of West Bengal polls

It's raining political parodies in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections. Whether it's the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), the BJP or the usually sombre CPI(M) all are taking comic jibes at each other with parody music videos.

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PM Modi to inaugurate Kolkata Metro extension to Dakshineswar on Monday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the extension of Kolkata Metro's North-South Line from Noapara to Dakshineswar on Monday, an official said. He will flag off a train from Noapara to Dakshineswar from a programme in the Hooghly district, Kolkata Metro spokesperson Indrani Banerjee said.

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PM to launch Kolkata Metro extension

West Bengal Assembly Polls: Handicraft artists give political touch to clothes

Owaisi's AIMIM to begin poll campaign on Feb 25

AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi will kick off his party's poll campaign inWestBengalon February 25 with a rally in minority-dominated Metiabruz area of the city.

Owaisi, who after AIMIM's good show in the 2020 Bihar assembly poll has announced that it will contest theBengalelection, has been discussing a possible alliance with Furfura Sharif cleric Abbas Siddiqui, who had recently floated the Indian Secular Front (ISF).

"This will be our party supremo Assaduddin Owaisi's first rally in the state in this poll season. He will kick off our party's poll campaign in the state," AIMIM state secretary Zameerul Hasan said.

BJP wants double engine govt in Bengal to siphon off public money: Abhishek Banerjee

Senior TMC leader and MP, Abhishek Banerjee, on Saturday criticised the BJP's slogan of "double engine government" (same party rule in Centre as well as state) in poll-bound West Bengal, alleging that the saffron party wants this mechanism to misappropriate public money.

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BJP challenges Mamata to announce she will contest only from Nandigram, TMC hits back

The BJP Saturday challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to announce that she will contest the coming state election only from Nandigram if she is confident of her victory, prompting TMC to hit back and ask the saffron party to first name its chief ministerial candidate.

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Bengal Assembly elections 2021: BJP’s organisation weak in 20% booth

At a time when the BJP is claiming that it will come to power in West Bengal by winning more than 200 seats, party sources reveal that it barely has any organisation in about 20% of the booths in the state. They also said that in a bid to resolve the issue, the state BJP leadership issued a 25 point instruction to party workers to strengthen its booth level organisation.

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Bengal wants its own daughter: TMC launches slogan for West Bengal Assembly elections 2021

Raising the pitch over the “insider-outsider” debate, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday released its slogan for the upcoming Assembly elections. The slogan ‘Bangla nijer meyekei chai’ (Bengal wants her own daughter) portrayed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the daughter of Bengal.

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