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* Akhil Gogoi's party proposes to field united oppn candidates: Jailed anti-CAA activist Akhil Gogoi has appealed to all the opposition parties to unitedly give only one candidate against every BJP nominee to defeat the incumbent government, newly floated Raijor Dal said on Tuesday.
AIADMK-BJP seat-sharing to be finalised in couple of days: The BJP-AIADMK alliance is likely to seal the seat sharing deal in a day or two. BJP National General Secretary and Tamil Nadu in-charge C. T. Ravi said talks are on with the alliance partner and everything will be finalised within a couple of days.
Anand Sharma's remarks on Cong alliance serving polarising agenda of BJP, says Adhir: West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has hit out at his colleague Anand Sharma over his criticism of its tie-up with the Indian Secular Front, accusing him of "undermining" the party's interest by making remarks "in tune with the BJP's agenda".
Commotion at Bengal BJP's 'Parivartan Yatra' rally in Hooghly: BJP's 'Parivartan Yatra' rally on Tuesday witnessed commotion when it was passing by a Trinamool Congress (TMC) party office at Uttarpara in Hooghly district. Activists of the TMC blocked G T Road as the rally neared its office leading to arguments between the workers of the ruling party and the BJP, police said.
Congress forms screening committee for West Bengal: The Congress on Tuesday constituted the party's screening committee for the eight-phased West Bengal Assembly polls starting March 27 with Delhi leader J P Aggarwal as its chairman. The other members of the committee are Mahesh Joshi and Naseem Khan.
HK Patil to head Kerala, Digvijaya Singh TN & Puducherry screening panels: Former minister in Karnataka HK Patil will head Kerala screening committee while former Madhya Pradesh CM Digvijaya Singh will be heading the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry screening committees of Congress. Along with HK Patil, Dudhila Sridhar Babu and Praniti Shinde have been made members while Tarique Anwar, General Secretary of the party in-charge of the state will be ex-officio member along with Ramesh Chennithala, Oommen Chandy, Mullappally Ramchandran.
Bombs recovered from ISF worker's residence in WB: Ahead of West Bengal assembly elections, gun bombs and bomb-making equipments were recovered from the residence of fugitive Indian Secular Front (ISF) worker Ziarul Mollah followed by the arrest of his father Jalil Mollah, said the police.