Kolkata: "Humbly accepting" the people's verdict in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the Left Front on Friday said it had failed to gauge the mood to the call for 'paribartan' given by the Trinamool Congress. "We did not understand that the people had accepted the slogan of paribartan (change)," Left Front chairman Biman Bose told a joint press conference by Front leaders at the CPI(M) headquarters here. "We have grassroot...
09:28 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Expressing happiness over the Assembly election results for five states, Congress on Friday chose the occasion to taunt BJP and Left parties asking them to learn the "right lessons" and stop attempts to destabilize the UPA government. "In this election more than 828 assembly seats went to polls. A national party (BJP), which claims to form government there...could not win seats even in double digit. The other party...
07:27 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Emotions played out in ways that ranged from hardly noticeable to intense after Left was decimated by Mamata juggernaut in West Bengal and narrowly lost power to Congress which scored a hat-rick in Assam and whose ally DMK was trounced by Jayalalitha's AIADMK in Tamil Nadu. The defeat of the Left Front after a 34-year-old uninterrupted rule in West Bengal at the hands of the one-man army headed...
07:19 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: All the five former IPS officers fielded by the Trinamool Congress won comfortably while TC nominee and former chief secretary Manish Gupta humbled Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, his one time boss. Gupta, who was chief secretary in 1998 during the tenure of Jyoti Basu and retired in 2001 serving one year under Bhattacharjee, defeated his former boss from the left bastion of Jadavpur by over 16,000 votes. Gupta polled...
06:58 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: Left Front's decimation in West Bengal was complete on Friday with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee losing the Jadavpur seat to Trinamool Congress candidate Manish Gupta, a former chief secretary. Manish Gupta, who was chief secretary in 1998 during the tenure of Jyoti Basu and retired in 2001 serving one year under Bhattacharjee, defeated his former boss from the Left bastion of Jadavpur by 15,727 votes. Gupta polled 96,625 votes...
05:09 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: After seven straight victories, the Left Front government in West Bengal on Friday came crumbling down, unable to withstand the 'paribartan' (wave for change) of the Trinamool Congress. The CPI(M)-led Front built on it's strength as the harbinger of land reforms, was the champion of the poor for 34 years of uninterrupted rule, till it hit a brick wall over it's decision to acquire land for industry. The tenure...
04:59 PM, May 13, 2011
Vijayawada: Senior BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said people in West Bengal favoured TMC as they were tired of the "Left's dictatorship", while in Tamil Nadu AIADMK benefited as the ruling DMK was hit by the 2G scam. "People were tired of the dictatorship by the Left. Many sections of the society in West Bengal suffered due to the decisions taken by the state government, which is why...
03:58 PM, May 13, 2011
I am interested in maintaining peace and development of the state, said Mamata Banerjee. ...
01:51 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: As the Trinamool Congress-Congress combine heads for a landslide win in West Bengal on Friday, most of the Left stalwarts lost their seats as angry voters punished leaders of the world's longest ruling elected Communist government for non-performance. After seven straight victories, the Left Front government in West Bengal on Friday came crumbling down, unable to withstand the 'paribartan' (wave for change) of the Trinamool Congress. Chief Minister and...
11:47 AM, May 13, 2011
FICCI Secretary General Amit Mitra says that peace and stability will help attract investors to West Bengal. ...
08:34 AM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: The international media and the national press have arrived here in strength to cover the outcome of the toughest-ever electoral battle in West Bengal as excitement among people for Friday's all-important results is palpable throughout the state. With Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress throwing a big challenge to the world's oldest democratically elected government and widely tipped to win, media houses have geared up to cover the possible big news....
09:04 PM, May 12, 2011
Kolkata: Less than 24 hours to go for the day Bengal has waited for with bated breath and all roads lead to Kalighat. Workers are working overtime to spruce up the place - well-wishers are trooping in with flowers and sweets, party leaders are making a beeline to her office for last minute planning, even the chairs are painted in Trinamool colours of green. Khokon, 27, has been working here...
08:08 AM, May 12, 2011
Midnapore: Fear factor continues to loom large over significant parts of Maoist-affected areas of Bengal which polls in its final phase on May 10. Not just those opposing the Left Front, but the Left Front itself is under threat. Spirited TMC supporters went back from a Mamata Banerjee meeting in Jhargram amid red flags that dot the roads in the nerve centre of Bengal's Jungal Mahal politics. But barely 20...
07:37 AM, May 08, 2011
Kolkata: Voter turnout during the fifth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections on Saturday in four Maoist-hit districts known as the 'red fort', is likely to cross 83 per cent and was by and large peaceful. The fate of health minister and CPM stalwart Suryakanta Mishra and WBPCC president Manas Bhunia, who were among the 193 candidates in 38 seats in four districts, were sealed in EVMs. The Left...
09:18 AM, May 07, 2011
Kolkata: Voter turnout during the fifth phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections on Saturday in four Maoist-hit districts known as the 'red fort', is likely to cross 83 per cent and was by and large peaceful. The fate of health minister and CPM stalwart Suryakanta Mishra and WBPCC president Manas Bhunia, who were among the 193 candidates in 38 seats in four districts, were sealed in EVMs. The Left...
09:18 AM, May 07, 2011
Kolkata: The high-voltage campaign for the May 7 fifth phase election to 38 constituencies in the Maoist-hit districts of West Midnapur, Bankura, Purulia and parts of Burdwan district ended on Thursday. An electorate of 74, 17,723 will chose their representatives to the West Bengal Assembly from among 193 candidates in fray. The notable among the constituencies is Keshpur in West Midnapur district where a bitter turf war between two arch...
10:49 AM, May 06, 2011
Bankura: Rubbishing West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee's charge that Trinamool Congress has links with Maoists, Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said CPM and ultras were both sides of the same coin. Mamata alleged that the CPM was acting as a mask for the ultras and anyone who protested against the party's "reign of terror" was branded as a Maoist. Often false cases were lodged against ordinary people in the name...
10:49 AM, May 05, 2011
Dhanekhali: Decrying the ruling Left Front government for pushing West Bengal into bankruptcy, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the Left politics was a 'shame' for the state. The Left parties had no reason to stay put in power as it failed to achieve anything worthwhile during its 34 years of rule except spreading canards about opposition party leaders, Mamata told a public meeting here in Hooghly district....
04:33 PM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: A group of Left MPs on Tuesday held a protest in Parliament House demanding a ban on endosulfan pesticide and questioned whether the reluctance on part of the government to take action in this regard pointed to another "scam". "We demand a nationwide ban on the pesticide. We wonder why there is no ban or is it pointing towards a scam. They say we are politicising the issue....
12:44 PM, Apr 26, 2011
