AISF campaigns for Md Salim

The CPM has decided to name student leader Ritabrata Banerjee as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha polls, eventually settling for a choice proposed by the central leadership. A section of the state secretariat of the CPM had preferred former finance minister ...

Congress' allegations that the leader had heckled Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Delhi last year. "He (Ritabrata) didn't attack Mamata. They had gone there for a protest. They didn't go to hurt anyone but people from outside had joined," Bose, who is the ...

Opposing Left Front candidate Ritabrata Banerjee's nomination for Rajya Sabha election, CPI(M) leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah today termed him as "burden for the party" and said his only qualification for the post seems to be his closeness to former Chief ...

News Desk The Statesman Publication Date : 01-04-2014 India's Trinamul Congress alleged that the ruling CPI-M in Tripura was creating obstacles so that the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee could not hold her election rally ...

With the growing power of social media, politicians are now increasingly interacting with the youth through Facebook and Twitter in a big way for campaigning in Lok Sabha polls but Election Commission (EC) has issued detailed guidelines for ...

Calcutta, March 18: A 73-year-old technophobe guided by a tech-savvy comrade 40 years his junior today launched the Bengal CPM's Facebook page and Twitter account at Alimuddin Street. Biman Bose, whose party was once at the forefront of the ...

Trinamul's electoral stage mirrors the crassness of a film festival inaugural. For the CPI-M as much as the Trinamul, the underpinning has been to induct new, even non-political faces. In very different ways, both parties have drifted from ...

KOLKATA: Why do Bengal's politicians simply love the social media? According to the figures of Census 2011, 8.3% of Bengal's 2 crore homes have a computer or a laptop and 42.9% use a cellphone. Trai's 2013 March report pegs Internet access by ...

By Anurag Dey Kolkata, March 1 (IANS): Though social media may not be a substitute for traditional means of campaigning, West Bengal politicians, with an eye on the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, are increasingly resorting to the digital medium and ...