Panchayat Elections

Getting rid of the minimum education criteria for contesting panchayat polls is a welcome decision, especially in India which is home to 35% of the world's illiterate population

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday met Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in Srinagar to discuss the security situation ahead of municipal elections in the state

The opposition parties had moved courts claiming the ruling Trinamool Congress had rigged the elections and had forcibly obstructed people from filing nominations

Following an election marred by unprecedented violence and over two dozen killings, Trinamool Congress is set to form the zilla parishad boards in all 20 districts

The Trinamool Congress has bagged 9,270 seats in gram panchayats, while the BJP emerged as the main challenger, winning 2,079 seats and leading in 200 others

Colleagues of the deceased alleged that poll official Rajkumar Ray was on Monday evening abducted by unknown miscreants trying to rig the panchayat elections in West Bengal

Repoll, which will take place on Wednesday, has been ordered in 19 of the 20 districts where voting took place on Monday amid rampant violence in which at least 13 people were killed

The Union home ministry has asked the West Bengal government to file a report on poll-related violence

Polling for West Bengal panchayat elections will begin at 7 am on Monday and end at 5 pm, counting of votes will take place on 17 May

Mamata Banerjee has blamed party leader Arabul Islam for the grave law-and-order situation in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas ahead of panchayat elections