Will Asansol pick 'Bihari babu' Shatrughan Sinha or the son of the soil, Surendrajeet Singh Ahluwalia?Asansol's political clash features TMC's Sinha against BJP's Ahluwalia. The constituency's diversity and key issues shape the intense compe...
14 May, 2024, 04.08 PM IST
Eyeing fresh term in LS from Asansol, TMC's 'Shotgun' Shatrughan Sinha sets the bar higherActor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who was renominated by the ruling TMC from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat, said on Friday he would tr...
05 Apr, 2024, 03.21 PM IST
18+ MPs in fray: Several state bypolls could come up in 6 monthsThe Election Commission (EC) faces a unique challenge as a record number of 18 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs are contesting assembly ele...
12 Oct, 2023, 11.34 PM IST
ET Analysis: Increasing footprint not easy, discovers Trinamool CongressIn Meghalaya and Tripura, party chief Mamata Banerjee and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee starred in high-voltage campai...
04 Mar, 2023, 12.01 AM IST
Amit Shah likely to visit Bengal in first week of MayMeanwhile, the state BJP chief announced a slew of programmes starting from May 2. A mega procession will be organized in Kolkata to establ...
19 Apr, 2022, 09.55 PM IST
TMC's street fighter chief Mamata Banerjee to be game-changer in 2024 polls: Shatrughan SinhaIn an interview with PTI, Shatrughan Sinha credited Banerjee, the West Bengal chief minister, with the victory from Asansol, a seat that th...
18 Apr, 2022, 12.53 PM IST
Except in Bihar, ruling parties win by-electionsTrinamool Congress, for the first time in its history, won the Asansol Lok Sabha seat where its candidate film star Shatrughan Sinha beat B...
16 Apr, 2022, 11.10 PM IST
Trinamool's Babul Supriyo, Shatrughan Sinha script wins in bypollsInterestingly, Halim has overtaken BJP's Keya Ghosh who bagged just 13,220 votes, thus lending some credence to the communist party's claim...
16 Apr, 2022, 05.39 PM IST
TMC eyes clean sweep in both assembly and LS by-poll, Shatrughan leads by over 2.8 lakh votesIn Asansol former Union minister and popular veteran Bollywood star Shatrughan Sinha is leading by garnering a massive 6,26,511 votes again...
16 Apr, 2022, 03.10 PM IST
Moderate turnout in Bengal bypollsTill 5 pm, polling percentage recorded in Asansol Lok Sabha constituency was 64.03%, while in Ballygunge Assembly Constituency it was 41.01...
13 Apr, 2022, 12.50 AM IST
Mithun Chakraborty calls on Asansol residents to vote for 'younger sister' Agnimitra Paul in by-pollsThe saffron party's star campaigner, in a video message, described Paul, the MLA of Asansol Dakshin assembly seat, as his 'choto bon' (youn...
02 Apr, 2022, 07.59 PM IST
TMC candidates Shatrughan Sinha, Babul Supriyo file nominations for by-polls in BengalSupriyo said: "I am thankful to 'Didi' (TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee) for giving me this opportunity to contest from the presitigious Ballyg...
21 Mar, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Khamosh... Trinamool, BJP aim to silence each other in Asansol bypollBJP candidate Agnimitra Paul in Asansol, who kicked off her campaign on Sunday by offering prayer at a temple, said she was 200% confident ...
21 Mar, 2022, 12.25 AM IST
Former BJP Minister Babul Surpiyo says support for Mamata 'overwhelming', differences with detractors sorted outThe former BJP MP from Asansol, who switched over to the TMC this September, said he had a "great meeting" with people who had voiced appre...
20 Mar, 2022, 04.46 PM IST
Shatrughan Sinha likely to begin poll campaign on March 20Shatrughan Sinha will start his campaign in most probability on Sunday and his campaign will be co-ordinated by state Lawyer Minister Moloy...
15 Mar, 2022, 06.56 PM IST
Violence mars civic polls in Bengal: Is TMC losing control?The panchayat bypolls in Jamuria and Raniganj in Burdwan and Murshidabad's Illambazar and civic polls in Bally were no exception.
04 Oct, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
- Winds of change sweep away Left in West Bengal polls
Anti-Left wave that first swamped the southern Bengal districts in the 2008 panchayat elections and then turned into a storm in the Lok Sab...
02 Jul, 2009, 03.50 PM IST