Bengal polls: Akranto Amra activist Ambikesh Mahapatra to contest as independent candidate

Kolkata, Mar 12 (IBNS): Professor of Jadavpur University (JU) and social group- Akranto Amra- activist Ambikesh Mahapatra, who came under focus after he was arrested by the police in 2012 for allegedly forwarding a cartoon on Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, on Saturday announced to contest as an independent candidate in upcoming assembly elections from Behala East constituency in Kolkata.

Bengal polls: CPI-M faces demonstration over election-candidate

Kolkata, Mar 11 (IBNS): Expressing dissatisfaction over selection of a candidate for upcoming West Bengal assembly polls, few Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists on Friday staged agitation in front of party headquarters at Alimuddin Street in Kolkata.

Congress books 75 seats in first list for Bengal polls

Kolkata, Mar 8 (IBNS): Triggering the possibility of an 'understanding' between the Congress and the Left, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday declared the first list containing 75 seats.

Municipal polls underway in West Bengal amid violence

Kolkata, Oct 3 (IBNS): High octane municipal polls in Kolkata's satellite town Salt Lake (Bidhannagar) and West Bengal's second largest city Asansol besides some wards of Bally are underway on Saturday amid reports of violence and booth capturing allegedly indulged in by the ruling TMC, which is bracing up for next year's Assembly polls when it faces a Left Front that is seen pulling up their socks in recent times.