Numbers tell tales. Bengal’s comrades would concede that the tale of this assembly election has been a rather sorry one for the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The CPI(M), once a formidable ...

West Bengal does not accept the politics of communal hatred. That is the single, focused message from an indisputable majority of its voters. The scale of the Trinamul Congress’s victory was not...

Parties such as the AIMIM and Abbas Siddiqui's ISF, which were seen as having the potential to deal a blow to the TMC’s minority support base, failed to make an impression in the West Bengal...

Against the backdrop of the Ganges in high tide at a riverside dhaba in Diamond Harbour, three Muslim residents were taking in the cool, strong wind and chatting about politics. I butted in ...

The political scenario in Malda, a district with over 50 per cent minority population, is taking an interesting turn this Assembly elections with new political forces and dissidents filing nominations...

“The BJP comes up with lengthy promises but does not deliver. During BJP’s regime, attacks on poor and backward classes have increased across the country. If we are voted to power, youths,...

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wondered whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "god or a superhuman" to make claims of a BJP triumph in the Assembly elections, six pha...

Three days before the second-phase of polling in Bengal, former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee appealed to the electorate to vote for the Samyukta Morcha comprising the Left Front, Congress an...

The CPM has borrowed the tune of Lungi Dance, from the 2013 Hindi film Chennai Express, for the song Haal Pherao, Laal Pherao, whose title exhorts people to bring the Left back to turn Bengal’s ...