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BJP Candidate List 2026 West Bengal: Full Seat-Wise List of 144 Candidates

In a strategic move for the upcoming West Bengal elections, the BJP has announced its first candidate list, highlighted by Suvendu Adhikari challenging Mamata Banerjee in both Nandigram and Bhabanipur.

'BJP Won't Be Able To Form Government In Bengal in 2026'

'The BJP lacks a credible mass leader who matches Mamata Banerjee's popularity.' 'Given the division of votes among Opposition parties, the West Bengal government's dole-giving strategy, and the consolidation of the poor, significant sections of scheduled caste groups and Muslim minorities behind the ruling party, it will be difficult to dislodge the Trinamool from power.'

Why Sarala Murmu went to BJP after getting a TMC ticket

'I did get a ticket, but getting nominated isn't enough.' 'The people in Habibpur, my own party workers, are my opponents.' 'Is it possible to win?'

After Sonali Guha, another turncoat wants to rejoin TMC

Murmu, who had switched camp as she was reportedly unhappy with the ticket that was given to her by the ruling party, has expressed her desire to return to the TMC, a day after Banerjee's former aide, Sonali Guha, made a similar appeal.

5 Trinamool MLAs join BJP in fresh spate of defections

The Trinamool Congress on Monday lost five more sitting MLAs and the control of the Malda Zilla Parishad to the Bharatiya Janata Party as defections continued to rock West Bengal's ruling party ahead of the assembly polls.

16 newborns die at Malda hospital in 3 days

Three more babies died at the Malda Medical College and Hospital on Thursday, taking the total number of crib deaths in the facility to 16 in the past three days.

UP: Over 12,000 riot victims yet to return home

12,681 riot victims have not returned to their native villages, Additional District Magistrate Indermani Tripathi said.

Now, a boy goes missing in Biharsharif

Understanding the BJP's rise in Bengal

Many anticipate that by the 2021 assembly elections in West Bengal, the BJP may come to power, says Mohammad Sajjad.

Malda decoded: What really happened?

India's Muslims need to assert their educational and economic upliftment and political empowerment rather than be provoked by communal remarks, says Mohammad Sajjad, reflecting on the Malda riot.