65% of newly elected Bengal MLAs face criminal cases; 61% are 'crorepatis': ReportNewly elected West Bengal MLAs show a significant increase in criminal cases. Over 65 percent declared criminal charges, a jump from the pr...
06 May, 2026, 08.47 PM IST
TMC minister Sujit Bose's income rises over 90 per cent over 5 years: Poll affidavitTrinamool Congress leader Sujit Bose declared a significant income jump in his election affidavit. His annual earnings have surged by over ...
25 Apr, 2026, 09.16 PM IST
West Bengal polls: 17% rise in 'red alert' constituencies, 23% candidates with criminal cases, says reportWest Bengal Assembly polls see a 17% rise in "red alert" constituencies, with 129 seats having three or more candidates with declared crimi...
22 Apr, 2026, 10.16 PM IST
West Bengal polls: 23 pc candidates have criminal cases, 22 pc crorepatis in second phase, says ADR reportA report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) reveals that 23% of candidates in West Bengal's second phase assembly polls have d...
21 Apr, 2026, 01.02 PM IST
West Bengal polls phase 1: Candidates report asset surge since 2021; BJP''s Adhikari shows declineCandidates in the West Bengal Assembly polls are declaring significant asset increases. Jakir Hossain's wealth more than doubled to over Rs...
17 Apr, 2026, 02.57 PM IST
West Bengal polls highlight stark wealth gap: Crorepatis vs ₹500 candidate17 Apr, 2026, 12.46 PM IST
BJP will not project CM face in Bengal, will seek votes in Modi's name: BJP president Samik BhattacharyaThe West Bengal BJP will not project a chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly polls. Party president Samik Bhattacharya anno...
05 Apr, 2026, 12.24 PM IST
Humayun Kabir's new party to contest 182 seats, targets Bhabanipur with high-profile candidateHumayun Kabir's new party, Am Janata Unnayan Party, has revealed its first list of 15 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections. Th...
18 Mar, 2026, 07.55 PM IST
West Bengal Assembly elections: TMC eyes historic 4th term, leans on welfare muscle amid rising BJP challengeThe Trinamool Congress faces a tough West Bengal assembly election. The party relies on its welfare schemes and Mamata Banerjee's leadershi...
18 Mar, 2026, 07.48 PM IST
Bengal bypolls: Seven candidates with serious criminal cases, another 7 crorepatisSeven of the 41 candidates in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly bypolls face serious criminal charges, according to an analysis of their af...
07 Nov, 2024, 03.17 PM IST
93% of Lok Sabha poll winners are crorepatis: ADR analysisA report by the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) has revealed that 93% of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections winning candidates are millio...
06 Jun, 2024, 04.36 PM IST
WB school teachers' recruitment 'scam': ED attaches assets of expelled TMC functionariesAssets worth more than Rs 15 crore of expelled TMC youth wing leaders Kuntal Ghosh and Santanu Banerjee and another person have been attach...
14 Jul, 2023, 10.05 PM IST
Meghalaya speaker richest candidate, assets soared to Rs 146 cr in 5 yrs: ReportLyngdoh, the chief of the United Democratic Party (UDP) who is re-contesting the February 27 polls from the Mairang seat, had declared asse...
22 Feb, 2023, 03.53 PM IST
Goa Assembly polls: 26 per cent candidates booked in criminal casesThe highest number of candidates with criminal cases are with the Congress, followed by the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and BJP, i...
08 Feb, 2022, 03.10 PM IST
'28% candidates contesting in WB polls phase-6 have declared criminal cases against themselves'The West Bengal Election Watch and the ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all the 306 candidates in 43 constituencies, who are ...
12 Apr, 2021, 06.25 PM IST
West Bengal: 31 seats to go to polls in third phase on TuesdayIn the 2016 Bengal Assembly election, chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC had won 29 of these seats and the CPM had around 37% vote-share.
05 Apr, 2021, 10.45 PM IST
Suvendu Adhikari seeks rejection of Mamata's nomination for "suppressing" info on criminal casesIn his complaint to the Election Commission, Adhikari, a former confidante of Banerjee, claimed she suppressed the information about five c...
16 Mar, 2021, 08.38 AM IST