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။ A BENGAL NEWZ INITIATIVE TO HELP VOTERS MAKE INFORMED CHOICES
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။ Agartala, 16 May :
။ Paramilitary force soldiers escorts counting officials as they cary EVMs to a counting centre at Agartala today morning. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
။ VOTE ။ Basanti, 13 May :
။ Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes outside a polling station during the last phase of voting at Amjhara, a small village near Basanti in South 24-Parganas. Amjhara witnessed 5 deaths in a poll-clash during last year’s panchayat election. Photo : Reuters
။ VOTE ။ Kolkata, 13 May :
။ Two Muslim women wait for their turn to caste vote outside a booth at a polling station in the Paharpur Road of Garden Reach. Photo : Reuters
VOTE ။ Sonarpur, 13 May :
။ Sonarpur's Addir-Abad area's 1100 voters boycotting polls today on local issues. They block and dig up roads to stop poll officials and police. Photo : Avijit Mondal
။ VOTE ။ Kolkata, 13 May :
။ Voters line up to cast their vote outside a polling station at Garia in Kolkata. West Bengal voters cast their final ballots in the country's marathon elections, with analysts predicting a shaky coalition government that will struggle to survive a full term. Photo : Indrajit Dutta
။ Election Cartoon courtsy TOI
။ Salt Lake, Kolkata, 12 May :
။ Central force personnel march through the Salt Lake area, just ahead of election day. Photo : PTI
။ Tamluk, 12 May :
။ CPI(M) leaders on Tuesday sat on a dharna outside the DM's office at (E) Midnapore district protesting against the alleged attack on party supporters on Saturday. Led by MP Lakhan Seth, they demanded action against the culprits involved in the 'killing' of 2 party leaders and alleged the involvement of TMC activists. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallick
။ Kolkata, 11 May :
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။ Election fever : Communist Party of India (Marxist) party supporters hold their party flags during an election rally in Kolkata. Campaigning for the final phase of Lok Sabha elections ends on Monday. Photo : Indrajit Dutta
။ Haldia, 8 May :
။ Hundreds of houses were either set ablaze or damaged in the fighting at Haldia-Nandigram. Two were killed in volatile Nandigram under Tamluk seat in East Mindapore in last 2 days. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallick
။ VOTE ။ Asansol, 7 May :
။ The crying mother of Akshay Bauri, who killed in a poll violence at Kanyapur in asansol today. Next Sunday is International Mother Day! Photo : Niraj Modi
။ VOTE ။ Asansol, 7 May :
။ POLL VIOLENCE : 1 killed & more than dozens people injured in a fight to protect a booth capturing at Barabani Assembly Constituency under Asansol Parliamentry Constituency today. Later four houses, four motor-bikes and a truck were burned. Photo : Niraj Modi
။ VOTE ။ Nandigram, 7 May :
။ A woman is helped to a polling station to cast her ballot in Nandigram. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallick
။ VOTE ။ Singur, 7 May :
။ Voters wait for their turn to vote outside a polling booth at Singur. Photo : Reuters
။ VOTE ။ Howrah, 7 May :
။ A first-time young Muslim voter holds up an ink stained finger to show that her vote has been cast. Photo taken at Pilkhana area today. Photo : Avijit Konar
။ VOTE ။ Amta, 7 May :
။ Voters stand outside a polling booth at Chandrapur village near Amta, during the 2nd phase of West Bengal voting in Howrah districts. Photo : Reuters
။ VOTE ။ Sreerampore, 7 May :
။ Voters await their turn to cast their ballot at a polling station in WB/26/181 Booth at Bangihaty area in Sreerampore, and an armed police stands guard. Photo : Sanjay Bhaduri
။ VOTE ။ Nandigram, 7 May :
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။ A Border Security Force (BSF) soldier keeps guard as voters wait for their turn to cast their ballots outside a polling booth in Nandigram. Photo : Reuters
။ VOTE ။ Rampurhat, 7 May :
။ A voter casts her ballot at a polling booth at Rampurhat in Birbhum district. This picture exclusively taken by Bengal Newz's lensman inside the booth. Photo : Hrisikesh Haldar
။ VOTE ။ Howrah, 7 May :
။ Voters stand in a queue to cast there vote at a school polling station during the 2nd phase of West Bengal voting at Howrah, in the fringe of Kolkata. Photo : Avijit Konar
။ Nadia, 6 May :
။ Paramilitary soldier stand guards in Anandabas village school in Nadia ahead of tomorrow's elections. Photo : Indrani Chatterjee
န New Delhi, 6 May :
န Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Opposition leader LK Advani greet each other during the birth anniversary celebrations of Pandit Motilal Nehru at Parliament House in New Delhi. Photo : PTI
န Howrah, 6 May :
န The BBC Indian Election Express pulls into Howrah station today at 9.30 am ahead of the elections in the city on Thursday. Photo : BBC News
န Nandakumar, 5 May :
န Poll campaign picks up in East Midnapore districts. Local crowd are watching TMC's Roadshow on Haldia-Mecheda road. Campaigning ends today for West Bengal's 2rd round elections on 7 May. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallick
။ Howrah, 5 May :
။ Paramilitary soldiers patrolling in Howrah ahead of West Bengal's 2nd phase polls. Photo : Avijit Konar
န Kolkata, 4 May :
န A man sleeps in front of a CPI(M) poll graffiti in North Kolkata today. Photob : Reuters
န Tamluk, 3 May :
န TMC and SUCI joint rally in Tamluk. Today is the last Sunday campaign before 7th May vote in West Bengal. Photob : AP
န Domkal, 2 May :
န AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi being presented a surahi by congress candidate Abdul Mannan Hossain during an election campaign rally at Domkal in Murshidabad today. Photo : PTI
န Howrah, 1 May :
န People attend an election campaign rally addressed by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Dumurjola sports complex today. န Photo : Jayanta Ghosh
။ VOTE ။ Lalgarh, 30 April :
။ A paramilitary soldier stands guard as voters queue up at a polling station in Lalgarh. Photo : PTI
။ VOTE ။ Siliguri, 30 April :
။ Paramilitary soldiers stand guard as voters enter a polling booth to cast their ballot at Dabidanga village on the outskirts of Siliguri. Photo : Sanjit Mitra
။ VOTE ။ Belpahari, 30 April :
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။ An armoured vehicle of India's Border Security Force (BSF) passes a buffalo cart during polling at Belpahari village, about 185 km west of Kolkata. Photo : Reuters
။ VOTE ။ Jhargram, 30 April :
။ Voters queue outside a polling station in Jhargram, some 210kms southwest of Kolkata, during the first phase of West Bengal's ellections. Getty Images
။ Durgapur, 30 April :
။ Trinamool congress supported Congress candidate from Bardhaman-Durgapur parliamentary constituency Nargis Begum asking vote on horse-drawn carriages in Durgapur today. Photo : Niraj Modi
။ Buxa, 29 April :
။ Polling officers carries electronic voting machines after collecting them from a distribution centre and passes through the forest road of Buxa Tiger Reserve, guarded with police personnel. Photo : Arnab Mitra
။ Panitanki, 29 April :
။ Indian female paramilitary soldiers stand guard near the border with Nepal ahead of third phase polls, at Panitanki village, about 40 km north of Siliguri. The India-Nepal and India-Bangladesh border will remain sealed from 28 April evening to 30 April, Siliguri's sub-divisional officer said on Tuesday. Photo : Reuters
။ Goaltore (West Midnapore), 29 April :
။ Activists from the People's Committee against Police Atrocities carry traditional weapons on a truck as they take part in a road blockade on the eve of third phase polls in Goaltore. The activists were protesting against what they say are police atrocities committed against tribal villagers. Photo : Reuters
။ Suri, 28 April :
။ Former Birbhum Zilla Parishad chief, CPI(M)'s Birbhum candidate Brojo Mukherjee waves at supporters during an election campaigns for the upcoming election in Suri today morning. Campaigning ends today for 107 LS seat for 3rd round elections on 30 April. Photo : Hrisikesh Haldar
။ Lalgola, 27 April :
။ Chief of India's ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi, chief of the regional Trinamool Congress party Mamata Banerjee and India's Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee gesture to their supporters during an election campaign rally in Lalgola. Photo : Reuters
။ Jangipur, 27 April :
။ Congress and Trinamool Congress are campaigning together for the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal with Sonia Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee sharing the dais after almost 10 years. Photo : Moinak Mukherjee
။ Bishnupur, 26 April :
။ Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar speaking in an election rally for CPI(M) candidate Susmita Bauri in the Bishnupur Today. Photo : Arpan Mukherjee
။ Agartala, 25 April :
။ Election in Tripura is over but this umbrellas with the sickle and hammer are still very usefull when Agartala reels under hot, dry spell. Tripura experienced hottest day of the season today. According to meteorology department the temperature was recorded at 38 degree C. Humidity was around 80%. Photo : Getty Images
န Darjeeling, 25 April :
န Senior BJP leader and party candidate from Darjeeling, Jaswant Singh, standing in front of world heritage D H R steam engine during his campaign in Darjeeling. Photo : PTI
န Nandakumar, 25 April :
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န West Bengal's ruling Left Front Chairman Biman Bose sharing a light moment with CPIM(M)'s three-time Haldia MP Laxman Seth, during a election rally in Nandakumar Today. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallick
။ Katwa, 25 April :
။ An election official teaches voters at Katwa bus stand, how to use a new electronic voting machine Today. Photo : Ahijit Das
။ Kolkata, 25 April :
။ Rahul Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee wave after addressing a media conference in Kolkata today morning. Photo : AFP
။ Malbazar, (Jalpaiguri) 24 April :
။ Rahul Gandhi promised land rights to tea garden workers at a election rally in Malbazar National Club grounds, 45km from Jalpaiguri town this afternoon, saying it would be much like the manner in which forest dwellers had been accorded similar rights by the UPA government. Photo : Arnab Mitra
န Kolkata, 24 April :
န UP IN ARMS : Tribal women hold bows and arrows and march during a rally in Esplanade area of Kolkata on Friday. Photo : AFP
။ Howrah, 24 April :
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။ A hot-air balloon campaigning for CPI(M) at Howrah Maidan. Photo : Reuters
။ Burdwan, 24 April :
။ The Indian Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee addressed an election rally at Bhatar, Burdwan today. Photo : Dipankar Chatterjee
။ Purulia, 24 April :
။ People attend an election campaign rally being addressed by Rahul Gandhi, Indian parliamentarian and son of the chief of India's ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi, in Purulia today. Photo : Aveek Mukherjee
။ Agartala, 23 April :
။ Voters await their turn to cast their ballot at a polling station in a Bangladesh border village, and a paramilitary soldier stands guard. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
။ Dhubri, 23 April :
။ Polling officers walk up a plank to get onto a boat on the river Brahmaputra to reach a remote polling booth near the border with Bangladesh for second phase polls at Dhubri, Assam. Photo : Reuters
ါ Guwahati, 23 April :
ါ Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks to the media as his wife Gursharan Kaur watches, after casting their vote at a polling station in Guwahati. Photo : PTI
။ Dhubri, 23 April :
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။ Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol on a boat in the river Brahmaputra near the border with Bangladesh ahead of second phase polls at Dhubri in Assam. Photo : Reuters
။ Kolkata, 22 April :
။ Mamata Banerjee, chief of the Trinamool Congress, reads her nomination papers for the upcoming elections in Kolkata today. Photo : Reuters
။ Agartala, 22 April :
။ Paramilitary soldier patroling outside in Agartala town during Flag March on eve of the general election tomorrow. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
။ Udaipur, 22 April :
။ Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at an election material distribution centre ahead of Thursday's polls in Udaipur, about 70 km south of Agartala. Tripura will hold the general election on 23 April. Photo : Reuters
။ Agartala, 20 April :
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။ CPI(M) supporters at an election rally in Agartala on Monday. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
။ Mahishadal, 20 April :
။ The Indian Union Minister Pranab Mukherjee landed at the makeshift helipad in Mahishadal. Today he addressed an election rally at Mahishadal. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallick
။ Election Cartoon courtsy TOI
။ Siliguri, 17 April :
။ WB Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the situation in the Darjeeling hills was not conducive to a free and fair election. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee addresses the election rally in rainy Siliguri on Friday. Photo : Sanjit Mitra
။ Naxalbari, 17 April :
။ Supporters attend an election campaign rally addressed by WB Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, at Naxalbari about 25 km from Siliguri on Friday. It is famous for being the site of a revolutionary peasant uprising in 1967, which began with the "Land to tiller" slogan and inspired similar revolts in other parts of the India, popularly known as Naxalite movement. Photo : Reuters
။ Jamshedpur, 18 April :
။ Bollywood's Bengali actor Mahima Chaudhary during an election rally while campaigining for the Congress candidate Subodh Kant Sahay, in Jamshedpur. Photo : PTI
။ Tamluk, 17 April :
။ Trinamool Congress candidate for Tamluk constituency Subhendu Adhikari filling his nomination paper to the Tamluk SDO Anamika Majumder today. He have given an assets affidavit of worth Rs 5 crore including buildings, apartments and non-agricultural land worth nearly Rs 35 lakh. His rival, CPM heavyweight Lakshman Seth, has a modest Rs 34 lakh in his kitty. Photo : Raghu Nandan Mallik
။ Sukna, 16 April :
။ Real Poll Kiss : A GJM supporter kissing GJM suported BJP candidate for Darjeeling LS, Jaswant Singh during a poll campaign in Sukna Today. The Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM), fighting for a separate Gorkhaland state in northern West Bengal. Photo : Sanjit Mitra
။ Port Blair, 15 April :
။ Polling officers collect their electric voting machines for the first phase of general elections, in Port Blair today. Photo : PTI
။ Uttarpara, 15 April :
။ A unick Nabobarsho-Poll rally with 'Mangalkalosh' by CPI(M) workers for their Sreerampore LS candidate Santasree Chatterjee in Uttarpara today. Photo : Sanjay Bhaduri
။ Port Blair, 15 April :
။ Manoranjan Bhakta, Member of Parliament returned to Port Blair two days before the elections. Shri Bhakta was received warmly by his supporters and well wishers. Soon after his arrival at the airport the Member of Parliament left for MP Bhawan. Photo : Andaman Chronicle
။ Siliguri, 12 April :
။ A worker prepares a flag of India's ruling Congress Party alliance regional Trinamul Congress Party in Siliguri town on Sunday. Photo : Sanjit Mitra
။ Kolkata,11 April :
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။ PEOPLE CONNECT : Mohd Selim, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate of Kolkata North, campaigns ahead of the country's general elections. Photo : Reuters
။ Jalpaiguri, 11 April :
။ An all party meeting held at Jalpaiguri collectorate, which conducted by District's Election Observers today. Jalpaiguri DM Bandana Yadab told Bengal Newz, total 6 Election Observers came for district's 2 Lok Sabha seats, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri. Photo : Arnab Mitra
။ Burdwan, 10 April :
။ CPI(M)'s women wing writing wall in support of their candidate for Bardhaman-Durgapur lok shabha constituency Prof. SK Saidul Haque in Burdwan town today. Photo : Dipankar Chatterjee
။ Siliguri, 9 April :
။ BJP's high-profile candidate and former Indian external affairs minister Jaswant Singh on Thursday submitted his nomination papers for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat. Singh has been backed by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha fighting for a separate state of Gorkhaland. Singh, was accompanied by GJM president Bimal Gurung's GJM supporters with party flags and festoons cheered Singh shouting slogans in his favour. Photo : Sanjit Mitra
။ Kolkata, 6 April :
။ Facing stiff resistance in Lalgarh area the WB state govt has put the ball in the EC's court asking its senior officials to visit the area and hold discussions with the 'Police Santras Birodhi Public Committee' (PSBPC), other political parties and local officials on how polls will be conducted. While Kolkata witnessed a PSBPC's armed rally today. Photo : PTI
န Agartala, 5 April :
။ CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat talks with Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar during an election rally in the Tripura capital Today. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
။ Jamuria, 4 April :
။ Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee addresses a gathering at Jamuria on Saturday. Later she alleged that her path was blocked by CPM marchers at Mejia when she was going to a rally in Bishnupur, Bankura today. Photo : Niraj Modi
န Kolkata, 3 April :
န A worker paints the election symbol of Trinamul Congress Party in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Friday. Photo : Reuters
။ Sreerampore, 3 March :
။ Seven-time MLA and MP in 2004, CPI(M) candidate Santasree Chatterjee waves at supporters during an election road show for the upcoming national elections, in Sreerampore's Mahesh today morning. Photo : Sanjay Bhaduri
။ Agartala, 1 April :
။ Congress candidate for West Tripura constituency Sudip Roy Barman filling his nomination paper to the DM of West Tripura Kishore Ambuly today. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
န Howrah, 1 April :
။ Political parties in Howrah have kicked off the campaign for the coming Lok Sabha polls with their workers painted walls with parodical graffiti, triggering each others. Photos : Avijit Koner
န Walling at Kadamtala, Howrah area.
ပ Agartala, 31 March :
။ Trinamool Congress workers accompany Arun Chandra Bhowmik, TMC candidate from West Tripura constituency on his way to filling nomination papers. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
Agartala, 31 March :
BJP workers accompany Nilmoni Deb, the BJP candidate for West Tripura constituency on his way to filling nomination papers. ။ Photo : Parthajit Dutta
Agartala, 30 March :
CPI(M) workers accompanying their candidate for West Tripura constituency Khagen Das on his way to filling nomination paper to the DM of West Tripura Kishore Ambuly today. Election in Tripura is scheduled to be held on 23rd April. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
Malda, 29 March :
Congress candidate Mousam Benzir Nur, shaking hands with supporters at Chanchol in North Malda during election campaign on Sunday. Photo : Misbaul Haque
Sreerampore, 29 March :
A CPI(M)'s Youth front DYFI's Banner in support of CPI(M) candidate Santasree Chatterjee at Mallickpara area feathering some recent shameful incident in Dhaniakhali, Hooghly. Photo : Sanjay Bhaduri
Jangipur, 28 March :
Congress leader and Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee enjoys coconut water during his election campaign at Khargram in his constituency Jangipur in Murshidabad. Photo : Moinak Mukherjee
Agartala, 27 March :
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A rickshaw puller carrying CPI(M) party flag and flex on Friday. ။ Photo : Parthajit Dutta
Sreerampore, 27 March :
Vote walling for Seven-time MLA and MP in 2004 CPI(M) candidate Santasree Chatterjee and TMC candidate Advocate Kalyan Banerjee at Simla area.Photo : Sanjay Bhaduri
Agartala, 25 March :
Political parties in Tripura have kicked off the campaign for the coming Lok Sabha polls. A woman passes by a wall bearing of Khagen Das, the CPI(M) candidate from Tripura West seat. Photo : Parthajit Dutta
Berhampur, 24 March :
Enthuasiastic supporters of Congress, campaigning for Berhampur's sitting MP and candidate Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Jubilant Adhir leading the rally. Photo : Moinak Mukherjee
Kolkata, 23 March :
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee flashes victory sign after releasing the party's manifesto for upcoming Lok Sabha polls at her residence in Kolkata. Photo : PTI
Kolkata, 20 March :
ONE FOR ALL : A shopkeeper sells election symbols of different political parties in Kolkata. Photo : PTI
Kolkata, 19 March :
Women supporters of Trinamool Congress campaigning for candidate Sudip Banerjee. Photo : PTI
Kolkata, 17 March :
OPENING SONG : Singer Kabir Suman, Trinamool Congress candidate for Jadavpur Lok Sabha seat, launches his campaign with party chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday. Photo : PTI
Kolkata, 17 March :
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CPI(M) veteren Jyoti Basu launches the website of Jadavpur Lok Sabha's CPI(M) candidate Sujan Chakraborty at his Salt Lake residence on Tuesday. Photo : Avijit Mondal
New Delhi, 16 March :
The road ahead : Releasing party's manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, CPM leader Prakash Karat accused the Congress of consciously working towards enriching the already rich. Photo : AFP
Siliguri, 15 March :
A West Bengal state election official teaches Tea workers at a tea plantation how to use a new electronic voting machine, near Siliguri Today. Photo : Arnab Mitra
Krishnanagar, 14 March :
Political parties in West Bengal have kicked off the campaign for the coming Lok Sabha polls with their workers painting a wall for TMC candidate, bengali film actor Tapas Pal in Krishnanagar town today. Photo : Indrani Chatterjee
Siliguri, 7 March :
Jibesh Sarkar, the CPI(M) candidate for Darjeeling Lok Sabha constituency, beats Nakara (drum) to attract voters in Mohorgong-Gulma Tea Estate, located 8km from Siliguri town. Photo : Arnab Mitra
New Delhi, 25 February :
Indian Parliament Speaker Somnath Chatterjee alights from his car as he arrives at the Parliament House in New Delhi today. Tomorrow will be his last sitting of the last session of the 14 Lok Sabha. Photo : PTI
Kolkata, 20 March :
ONE FOR ALL : A shopkeeper sells election symbols of different political parties in Kolkata. Photo : PTI
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။ Arch rivals in a poll tie-up ensure their mutual hatred is well reflected.
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