West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will hold a crucial meeting on Saturday with all the 29 newly-elected party Lok Sabha members to deliberate on their strategy in the Parliament, party leaders said.
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) has launched a campaign to create awareness among students about the threat to soil due to the use of pesticides.
Incidents of post-poll violence were reported across several districts including Cooch Behar in north Bengal, North 24 Parganas district and South 24 Parganas in the south and Jhargram in Jangalmahal region of the State.
Kolkata: Among the 42 candidates who have won the Lok Sabha, five – three of the Trinamool Congress and two of the BJP – are ‘young’. One of them is union minister Shantanu Thakur. Also ReadWest Bengal: TMC registers over 2% vote swing,…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Altogether 0.87 per cent of the voters of West Bengal pressed the 'none of the above' (NOTA) button in the just-concluded Lok Sabha election, the data released by the Election…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The BJP's loss in the 2024 West Bengal Lok Sabha elections was worsened by its inability to counter the TMC's narrative regarding central funds, reliance on central leadership,…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The electoral contest between BJP's Saumitra Khan and his former wife Sujata Mondal of the TMC delivered the closest margin of victory among the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal.
Kolkata: People belonging to the minority community helped TMC sweep Muslim-majority pockets in the southern region of West Bengal while the division of their votes facilitated BJP’s victories in the northern part of the state. In a state…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The Trinamool Congress swept the Gangetic plains of West Bengal and recovered in the western Junglemahal region, which hold the key in the state's politics, by bagging 18 of the 29…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. People belonging to the minority community helped TMC sweep Muslim-majority pockets in the southern region of West Bengal while the division of their votes facilitated BJP's victories…
Kolkata: Refuting predictions made by a majority of exit polls for West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress registered a 45.77 per cent vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, up by more than two per cent from the 43.7 per cent…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Refuting predictions made by a majority of exit polls for West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress registered a 45.77 per cent vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal, up by…
The only silver lining from the electoral understanding forged by the Left Front and Congress was the latter’s win from Malda Dakshin by a margin of 1.28 lakh votes
The CPI(M) were virtually decimated in the general elections with the party securing only around 5% votes in West Bengal as against 6.33% in 2019 polls
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The strategy of fielding turncoats in the Lok Sabha polls by West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party failed as all of them, except one, fared…
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. BJP candidate Kartick Chandra Paul on Tuesday won the Raiganj Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal by a margin of 68,197 votes, the ECI said.