Nandigram

In Nandigram, the Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari's district in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur, the BJP won handily in a cooperative body poll on Sunday.

Suvendu Adhikari seeks SC direction to transfer Mamata's plea challenging his Nandigram win from Calcutta HC

Suvendu Adhikari moved the SC hours after the Calcutta High Court issued a notice to him basis the petition filed by Mamata Banerjee challenging the BJP leader’s election from the Nandigram constituency in the 2021 Bengal Assembly elections.

After TMC, West Bengal BJP may move court seeking recounting in narrowly lost seats

Dilip Ghosh's statement came after the Trinamool Congress filed petitions in the Calcutta High Court urging recounting in five assembly constituencies, including Nandigram, where the party lost by slender margins.

Calcutta HC to hear on June 24 Mamata Banerjee's petition challenging Suvendu Adhikari's election from Nandigram

In her petition, the Trinamool Congress chief accused BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari of committing corrupt practises as envisaged under Section 123 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.

Mamata Banerjee moves Calcutta HC against Suvendu Adhikari's election win in Nandigram

While Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress had registered a sweeping win in the assembly polls, Suvendu Adhikari had scraped through with a narrow-margin victory against the chief minister in Nandigram.

49% MLAs in newly-elected West Bengal Assembly have criminal records, 54% crorepati

In the newly-elected Bengal Assembly, 142 MLAs have declared criminal cases against themselves.

Mamata Banerjee : A long history of fighting high-stakes battles

Banerjee's latest fight constitutes just one chapter in her long history of fighting all or nothing, no holds barred campaigns, especially in her own seat.

West Bengal Election 2021 | Here’s how Nandigram has voted in the past

For decades, Nandigram had been a Left bastion with a sporadic Congress leaning, befire the CPI wrested power in 1967. It stayed mostly with the Left thereafter till the TMC won the seat in 2009.

Mamata Banerjee dials Bengal Governor from outside Nandigram polling booth, says 'locals not allowed to cast vote'

The chief minister alleged that her complaints were not being effectively addressed by the Election Commission officials.

West Bengal Election 2021 | Mamata Banerjee conducts massive roadshow in Nandigram

The high-stakes constituency in Purba Medinipur district will go to the polls in the second phase on April 1.

West Bengal Election 2021 | Mamata’s purported audio clip seeking help from Suvendu Adhikari’s aide goes viral

A BJP delegation, led by general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, met Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer and handed over the tape and claimed that Banerjee abusing her official position to influence the outcome of the election.

Suvendu Adhikari, TMC locks horn over legacy of Nandigram movement

The TMC observes March 14 as 'Nandigram Divas' to pay respect to the 14 people killed in police firing on this day during an anti-land acquisition stir in 2007. The TMC, after coming to power, has also been observing the day as Krishak Divas.

West Bengal assembly elections: EC Suspends Mamata Banerjee's head of security over Nandigram incident

The Election Commission announced this decision on March 14, hours after it ruled that the incident was more likely an accident and not an attack as claimed by the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

Chose to fight anti-Bengal forces in Nandigram as mark of respect to martyrs: Mamata Banerjee

Banerjee, who is pitted against former lieutenant and BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram seat, said that farmers are the pride of West Bengal and the state government is working tirelessly for their development.

Don’t vote for BJP, they have robbed the country: Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait

Rakesh Tikait, who was in Kolkata on March 13, has said farmer leaders protesting against the three agricultural reforms introduced by the Centre would go to the assembly constituency of Nandigram to urge people to not vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

West Bengal Election 2021 | Can Mamata's fractured leg do for TMC what Sharad Pawar’s rain-soaked speech did for NCP in 2019?

Experts believe that the injury may have turned a seeming BJP tide in the Chief Minister’s favour for now; feisty leader established her reputation as a `street fighter' in similar conditions in 1990 and 1993

West Bengal Election 2021: Mamata Banerjee’s fractured leg draws new battle lines

A poll-time injury could have political consequences in an emotionally-charged state

Mamata Banerjee injured during election campaign in Nandigram, says 'was pushed'

There was lack of security and police personnel, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said following the 'attack'.

Mamata Banerjee files nomination from Nandigram assembly seat

Accompanied by party president Subrata Bakshi, Banerjee filed her papers at the Haldia sub-divisional office, after taking part in a 2-km roadshow.

West Bengal Election 2021: BJP releases first list of 57 candidates; fields Adhikari against Mamata in Nandigram

The party has announced candidates for all but three of the 60 seats which will go to polls in the first two of the eight-phase elections.

Mamata Banerjee to contest from Nandigram: Masterstroke or political desperation?

The message from Banerjee is clear: She is in no mood to cede an inch of West Bengal to the BJP, and that’s the reason why she picked Nandigram — a symbolic seat representing her rise to power

What Mamata Banerjee's Nandigram dare means in the West Bengal elections

The TMC boss is intent on taking the fight to the BJP and Suvendu Adhikari who recently exited her party

We are not anti-Tata, in favour of farmers: WB govt

The West Bengal government today submitted before the Calcutta High Court that it was not against the Tatas but in favour of farmers and employment generation.

Amit Mitra: Who says Mamata is industry unfriendly?

Trinamool Congress candidate and FICCI secretary-general Amit Mitra, in an interview with CNBC-TV 18's Anuj Singhal termed the assembly polls victory in West Bengal as 'historical' change.