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West Bengal Assembly Elections

Congress candidate Milan Pradhan (L) and Mamata Banerjee (R). File. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement, ANI

Nandigram bypoll: Congress candidate Milan Pradhan arrested hours after getting Mamata’s support

The arrest comes an hour after Mamata Banerjee said she would support the Congress candidate after her own candidate withdrew her nomination

Shrabana Chatterjee

BJP candidate Debangshu Panda at Falta, in the South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, on May 24, 2026.

BJP wins Falta Assembly re-poll by over 1 lakh votes

Shiv Sahay Singh

Voters stand in queues and show their voter IDs at the polling station to cast their votes for the re-election to the Falta assembly seat, in South 24 Parganas on Thursday (May 21, 2026).

Voting begins for re-polling in Falta Assembly seat in West Bengal

Shrabana Chatterjee

Falta Assembly repoll: TMC candidate Jahangir Khan pulls out of contest

Shiv Sahay Singh

3 held from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar in killing of Suvendu's aide

Shrabana Chatterjee

Regional, caste calculus in BJP’s West Bengal Cabinet choices

Shiv Sahay Singh,Shrabana Chatterjee

Suvendu Adhikari takes oath as first BJP CM of West Bengal

Shiv Sahay Singh

People celebrate with sweets and colour as ‘Kanthi’s son’ takes oath in Bengal

Shrabana Chatterjee

Subrata Gupta, ECI's special observer for SIR, appointed West Bengal CM's advisor

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to Rabindranath Tagore, on the occassion of Rabindra Jayanti, in Kolkata on May 9, 2026.

After Suvendu takes oath, Mamata urges opposition parties to form 'joint platform' against BJP

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When voting becomes uncertain Inside Bengal’s explosive election season

When voting becomes uncertain Inside Bengal’s explosive election season

Has SIR changed the West Bengal election narrative?

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PM Modi makes unscheduled stop at jhalmuri stall in Jhargram during Bengal campaign

West Bengal Assembly Election Results - A Data-Led Look at West Bengal's Electoral Shift

The Hindu Data Team

Specials

Hundreds of rehabilitation buildings and flats remain empty as locals refuse to take them without assurance of livelihood.

Rehabilitation promises return every election in Raniganj coal belt

Shrabana Chatterjee

BJP supporters take part in a roadshow ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, in Kolkata, on April 17, 2026

Cash incentives for women steer Bengal poll discourse

Shiv Sahay Singh,Shrabana Chatterjee

Fish on the menu: Trinamool Congress candidate Aroop Biswas leads a New Year procession in Garia on Wednesday.

Fish emerges as a campaign symbol on Bengali New Year

Shrabana Chatterjee,Shiv Sahay Singh

“We are reassuring the poor people that even though the Central Government has stopped funding, the State Government will provide money for housing,” West Bengal Forest Minister Birbaha Hansda said. File

UCC will erase tribal identity: West Bengal Forest Minister

Shrabana Chatterjee

Big fight: Supporters of Trinamool Congress during a public meeting for the Lok Sabha election in Kolkata on Thursday

Development in West Bengal leaves much to be desired | Data

Devyanshi Bihani

Sirsanya Banerjee.

Trinamool’s ‘nepo babies’ face tough contest in 2026 Assembly election

Shiv Sahay Singh

BJP’s Gopiballavpur candidate Rajesh Mahato prays during an election campaign.

Welfare measures for the marginalised take centre stage in Bengal’s Jhargram

Shrabana Chatterjee

West Bengal Minister and three-time Trinamool MLA Shashi Panja. File

How can Bengal election be fair when so many genuine voters are left out, asks Shashi Panja

Shrabana Chatterjee,Shiv Sahay Singh

More stories from West Bengal

Mr. Pradhan was sent to judicial custody on Saturday (September 19, 2026) by the Haldia Sub-Divisional Court until October 3, 2026, in four pending non-bailable arrest warrants linked to cases in Nandigram dating back to 2007. File | Photo Credit: Special arrangement

Calcutta HC asks WB Govt counsel to let Congress’ Nandigram bypoll candidate contest properly if he gets bail

Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had said that she wanted to send a message about the future of the opposition alliance beginning from Bengal.

Mamata’s backing of Congress in Nandigram bypoll signals possible reset in Bengal opposition politics

Congress candidate Milan Pradhan (L) and Mamata Banerjee (R). File. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement, ANI

Nandigram bypoll: Congress candidate Milan Pradhan arrested hours after getting Mamata’s support

Shrabana Chatterjee

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TMC MP Samirul Islam seeks DGP’s intervention over alleged illegal detention of 66-year-old

Shiv Sahay Singh

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari addresses the launch of ‘Mukhyamantri Swasthya Bima Yojana’, an augmented pension scheme and a health insurance scheme for journalists, at the state Secretariat, in Kolkata, Tuesday, September 1, 2026.

Bengal CM urges journalists not to compromise on patriotism

Shiv Sahay Singh

Doctors at Narayana Health announcing a new feat in cancer treatment with cord transplant and Car T-cell therapy. Photo: Special Arrangement

Doctors achieve new feat in cancer treatment with cord transplant and Car T-cell therapy

The Hindu Bureau

While eggs get thrown at TMC politicians, they might vanish from mid-day meals under the ISCKON pilot programme the BJP government wants to roll out.

Column | Bengal’s summer of the egg

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla receives a letter from Trinamool MPs, including Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Mala Roy, and Yusuf Pathan, for a separate seating arrangement in the House, in New Delhi. File photo: PTI via handout

Trinamool division: What are the options before the Election Commission?

Sobhana K. Nair,Sreeparna Chakrabarty

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CBI questions former Trinamool MLA in R.G. Kar rape and murder case

Senjuti Sengupta

Falta repoll results highlights: BJP’s Debangshu Panda wins Falta Assembly seat by over 1 lakh votes

The Hindu Bureau

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