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.

The stage is set for a mega anti-BJP rally at the historic Brigade Parade ground here on Saturday, that would virtually kick-start the opposition's campaign and is likely to provide the contours of a federal front ahead of the coming general election.

Rahul Gandhi, the popular politican from Nehru-Gandhi family keep on making headlines every new day. For now he is in news because of his letter to Mamata Banerjee, the current CM of West Bengal. He wrote a letter in support of her "United India rally" in Kolkata on 19 January, tipped to be a major gathering of anti-BJP parties ahead of the national election to be held on May, this year. "The entire opposition is united," the Congress president said in his letter addressed to "Mamata Di".

The two-day nationwide strike on Jan 8 and 9 has interrupted normal life across India. Around 20 crore workers participated in the strike and a little violence was reported in West Bengal, Odisha and Kerala. Tyres were burnt and buses were vandalised at many places in Bengal. Protesters blocked roads and obstructed train services in all the three states. Here are the top 10 note-worthy points related to Bharat Bandh 2019. Just take a look:

On the second anniversary of demonetisation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi for cheating the nation with the note-ban "scam".