Without a single Congress legislator in West Bengal Legislative Assembly post 2021 elections hopes of the Grand Old Party making its presence felt in 2026 polls appears slim. A growing rift between the Congress and Trinamool Congress at national level will prevent the Congress of being a power to reckon with in the next year’s election in the state.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, RJD’s Tejashwi Prasad Yadav and a host of other top leaders of INDIA bloc participate in a march in the state capital on Monday, marking the conclusion of ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ against ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and discrepancies in the exercise.
The Congress is actively debating whether or not to join the proposed joint parliamentary committee (JPC) that will examine a bill that seeks resignation of Prime Minister, Chief Ministers and Ministers if they remain jailed for over 30 consecutive days over serious corruption charges.
As the Election Commission announced on Saturday, the West Bengal Assembly is preparing to receive approximately 14,000 new poll booths during the upcoming 2026 Assembly elections. The meeting of the Parties is scheduled for August 29, at 3:30 p.m.
After having worked out an electoral alliance with Congress since 2016 Assembly polls, the CPI(M) wants the other political outfit to make the first overtures for a poll pact in 2025 Assembly elections.
The Opposition INDIA bloc on Monday named former Judge of the Supreme Court and the first Lokayukta of Goa, Justice B. Sudershan Reddy as the candidate for the Vice-Presidential election.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has made an important move towards transparency and accountability by publishing the names of 6.5 million voters removed from the Bihar draft electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.
The day after Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar gave an ultimatum to Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi to file an affidavit regarding his allegations of voter roll manipulations in Karnataka within a week, the Congress leader hit back at the CEC saying that “the entire country will ask for an affidavit from the Election Commission of India”.
