Hafizul Sheikh, who recently joined the BJP, was shot dead because he joined the saffron party, alleged his family.

The Trinamool Congress on Thursday lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Krishnanagar candidate, Amrita Roy, for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), a claim denied as baseless by the saffron camp.

While visiting Kaliganj assembly constituency, which falls under Krishnanagar, Mahua Moitra made tea at a shop and offered to the locals. She had adopted the same gimmick while campaigning for the panchayat elections of 2023.

The Enforcement Directorate had issued fresh summons to Moitra and Dubai-based businessman Darshan Hiranandani for questioning in a Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contravention case.

Senior TMC leader Shashi Panja, who is the state’s Women and Child Development Minister, claimed that the PM visits West Bengal only before elections.

Speaking at a rally in Krishnanagar in Nadia district, Modi outlined an ambitious target for the BJP to win all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, emphasising the essential correlation between West Bengal’s progress and that of the nation.