West Bengal Elections 2021 LIVE Updates: It’s the assembly elections season in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Polling happened in a single phase in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on April 6, while voters in Assam cast their votes in three phases. Polling in Bengal is happening in eight phases. Of these, five phases have concluded. The next phase will

West Bengal Elections 2021 LIVE Updates | BJP candidate's house attacked

A BJP candidate's house was attacked with crude bombs in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district, police said today. The house of Sanmoy Bandopadhyay, BJP's Panihati candidate, was attacked late yesterday, they said. The incident happened in the Khardaha police station area where Bandopadhyay lives, they added. A person was arrested in connection with the incident, a senior officer of the Barrackpore Police said. There was no report of any injury to anyone, he said. (PTI)

West Bengal Elections 2021 LIVE Updates | West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee blames PM Modi for second wave of COVID-19 

Holding prime minister Narendra Modi responsible for the second wave of COVID-19 in India, West Bengal chief minister in Kaliganj said, "Why didn't you (PM) make plans to stop corona in the last 6 months?... You have to answer this. Prime Minister is responsible for second wave of COVID19. If he would have taken responsible at right time then this wouldn't have happened." (ANI)

West Bengal Elections 2021 LIVE Updates | Law Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad: Fast-track courts established across country for fast-tracking cases of sexual offences against children, wherein Centre provides 50 percent funds and remaining states do. 123 fast-track courts sanctioned for Bengal. Been writing to Mamata Banerjee for her consent but all in vain. You're a woman chief minister. What's the problem with fast-track courts for sexual offences against children? (ANI)

Pointing to a purported audio tape, in which the TMC boss is apparently heard proposing a rally with the bodies of Cooch Behar firing victims, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah yesterday said he has so far never come across any person who "plays politics over the dead". Insisting that infiltrators are taking away the benefits meant for the country's citizens, he said, "People like you and I are second-grade citizens for Didi as we do not add heft to her vote bank." He gave assurance that his party, if voted to power in West Bengal, will ensure that cross-border cattle smuggling comes to a stop once and for all. (PTI)

Elections won't be needed to be conducted under the security provided by central forces after the BJP comes to power in West Bengal, said state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh while addressing an election rally at Bhatar constituency in Purba Bardhaman district. "We will straighten the spine of the state police that has been curved by turning the force into the political agent of the ruling party," Ghosh said.

80 electors cast their votes through a postal ballot at 161 Ballygunge Assembly constituency of Kolkata South District