Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray alleged intimidation and coercion by the ruling alliance in the BMC elections, calling it a “strange” contest for political survival. Despite the Mahayuti alliance’s majority, Thackeray asserted the resilience of his party, thanking voters for their support amidst alleged pressure.

Days after she set the cat among the pigeons by walking out with documents during Enforcement Directorate raids on political consultancy firm I-PAC, Mamata Banerjee has urged the Chief Justice to protect people from being “targeted” by agencies.

Singur, which changed the course of West Bengal politics in 2006, is once again at the centre of a controversy 18 years later. Back then the question was about why set up industry on fertile agricultural land.