KOLKATA: A new alliance marks a potential realignment in West Bengal’s Muslim vote bank ahead of the Assembly elections next month. Humayun Kabir, chief of the newly formed Aam Janata Unnayan Party ...

In the spring of 2021, as West Bengal braced itself for one of the most polarising assembly elections in recent history, I returned from Delhi to cast my vote. The pandemic was at its peak, and the ...

Murshidabad, a district with over 70 per cent Muslim population with 22 Assembly constituencies, emerged as the sole district in Bengal where five parties secured seats A BJP supporter in Krishnanagar ...

Muslims make up 27% of the state’s population, as per the census 2011. They form the majority in the districts of Murshidabad, Malda and Uttar Dinajpur. Of the 27.16 lakh names excluded during the ...

West Bengal will vote in two phases on April 23 and 29 to elect a new assembly. After the publication of post-adjudication electoral rolls in the state, it is now clear that the Special Intensive ...

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday projected a higher Muslim demographic in the future for the Northeast and West Bengal after the new census is conducted, pitching for a BJP-led state ...

Kolkata: Minority voting in Bengal's Muslim-dominated districts moved away from the long-assumed pattern of near- total consolidation behind Trinamool, reshaping electoral calculations in a state ...