Live Updates on West Bengal’s Upcoming Assembly Elections

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Friday, 19th March 2021

March 19, 10:25 IST

A meeting between the Trinamool Congress parliamentary delegation and the Election Commission of India is scheduled at 12 noon in the national capital over conducting free and fair polls in the upcoming Assembly election. The party will be represented by Saugata Roy, Md Nadimul Haque, Pratima Mondal, Mahua Moitra, and Yashwant Sinha, who has recently joined TMC and has been given the position of Vice-President.

March 19, 9:48 IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, the BJP’s “gas balloon” had become an “election cash balloon”. In an explicit verbal lashing, she said the BJP is impoverished of ideas of their own and are resorting to filching slogans like “paribartan” from the Trinamool Congress. She said they “could not think up anything new” and accused them of making hollow promises fraught with “lies and deceit”.

Also Read: 2021 WB Assembly Election: Mamata Banerjee may wash hands off another veteran of the party in the coming week.

March 19, 9:26 IST

Seven more ministers in WB have been added to the list of protectees by the CRPF which is at present handling the security of 69 VIPs all over India.

March 19, 9:09 IST

The brawl between TMC and BJP in Nandigram took a turn for the worse as violence broke out between party workers on Wednesday. Several were reported injured after the incident and additional forces had to be rushed to bring the situation under control. TMC approached the EC for intervention against “those who incited violence.”

March 19, 8:43 IST

BJP, in its third list of 157 candidates, nominated at least nine former popular Trinamool leaders or their kin, six celebrities, and one MP for the upcoming Assembly polls scheduled on March 27.

March 19, 8:41 IST

PM Modi took to campaigning in Bengal with a new take on the TMC catchphrase “khela hobe” and declared “Vikas hobe Chakri hobe” (there’ll be development and jobs) and ended with “Didi-r khela shesh hobe” (Didi’s game will be up).

The News Talkie Bureau

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