Banerjee on Friday alleged that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was actually managing the ongoing elections in the state, instead of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
Banerjee on Friday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that she does not need his "suggestion" on contesting from any other seat.
Amit Shah lashed out at Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of running the TMC government in the state on the 3T model of 'Tolabaji' (extortion), 'Tanashahi' (dictatorship) and 'Tushtikaran' (appeasement)
A large voter turnout of more than 80 per cent despite sporadic incidents of violence and allegations of vote fraud on Thursday marked the second phase of West Bengal assembly polls.
PM also said a BJP wave was blowing across West Bengal where the party will win over 200 of the state's 294 assembly seats
Banerjee said the time had come for a "united and effective" struggle against the BJP's 'attacks' on democracy and the Constitution
West Bengal election 2021 LIVE updates: 72 per cent voter turnout recorded till 5 pm. TMC and BJP are contesting in all the 30 seats. Stay tuned for LIVE updates on West Bengal election 2021 Phase 2
A media vehicle was vandalised in Nandigram by unidentified miscreants
The matter is likely to come up for hearing on April 8
As soon as Banerjee reached Boyal, BJP supporters started chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans
Voting in Nandigram is underway amid multiple allegations of disruptions by the Trinamool Congress
In the Boyal area in Nandigram, villagers alleged that BJP supporters had stopped them from going to the polling booths
Banerjee decided to stay at her war room during the polls in the Nandigram assembly constituency where she is locked in a fierce prestige battle with confidante-turned-adversary Suvendu Adhikari
Voter turnout for the second phase of polling in West Bengal notched as much as 15.72 per cent in about three hours as over 7,500,000 electorate began voting in 30 Assembly seats on Thursday
"She (Mamata Banerjee) should show some restraint as she is the Chief Minister. She uses filthy language for the Prime Minister. She is 66-year-old aunty," said the CM's-protege-turned-rival Adhikari
A voter turnout of 13.14 per cent was recorded till 9 am on Thursday in the second phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal
BJP's heavyweight Nandigram candidate Suvendu Adhikary cast his vote soon after polling began on Thursday morning
Banerjee, the indomitable fighter is a writer, poet and painter who had ended the decades-long rule of the Left Front but after two successive terms faces a major challenge to her political career
Banerjee alleged that BJP leaders were distributing large sums of money running into crores to influence electoral outcomes besides bringing in "hired goons" and asked for action by the EC
The BJP mocked Trinamool Congress supremo for publicly speaking about her gotra and termed it as a desperate bid by her to regain lost ground in Bengal where her party is facing an imminent defeat