Dodging an alleged attempt by Mamata Banerjee to stop Yogi Adityanath from holding a rally in West Bengal, the UP CM travelled by road to meet and greet people waiting for his arrival in Purulia.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday termed Supreme Court's decision to not arrest Kolkata Police Chief Rajeev Kumar, instead asking him to co-operate fully, a moral victory for the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) official.

Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a police commissioner must not be arrested, however, it asked Rajeev Kumar to co-operate with the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) officials and appear before them in Shillong with all evidences he have related to Saradha Chit Fund scam.

The Supreme Court has fixed 10:30 Am as the time to hear a plea, saying that it would hear the parties to produce any evidence in favour or against CBI's fear of anyone in West Bengal, including the police, destroying the evidences in Sardha Chit Fund scam.

Denied permission to land chopper for a rally in the West Bengal, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath lashed out at the Trinamool Congress and tagged the party as "anti-people". He also roasted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she is left with only a few days of power in the state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday kick-started a poll campaign in West Bengal, praising Citizenship Bill and urging the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government to support it in Rajya Sabha.

The campaign for Lok Sabha Election 2019 has already started and PM Narendra Modi has inaugurated the session by targeting West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over the Citizenship Bill. On Friday, Modi addressed rallies in Thakurnagar and Durgapur and said "Didi's" government will be uprooted and asked her why she was scared of the "chowkidaar" if she had not done anything wrong.

The "BJP hatao" campaign of opposition parties got a major boost at the Kolkata rally convened by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee but the idea of a "mahagathbandhan (grand alliance)" continues to be a challenge over the absence of a common face to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Demanding withdrawal of electronic voting machines (EVM) in the coming general elections, 23 anti-BJP parties on Saturday decided to form a four-member committee to prepare a draft on EVM issues to place before the Election Commission (EC), said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Andhra Pradesh counterpart N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his comment on mega-rally in Kolkata.