Samik Bhattacharya

Saffron rising in Bengal: CPM should start worrying about the BJP

While the bye-elections may not confirm a trend of the BJP becoming the principal opposition force by displacing the CPM-led Left Front, they do give pointers.

BJP lands in Bengal: Can a hundred lotuses bloom?

What Basirhat-on-the-border thinks today, can Bengal think tomorrow? The BJP says Basirhat is its beachhead into Bengal. Trinamool scoffs dream on.

From 'secular' Akhilesh to dabangg Didi: By-polls' big winners, losers

Here's a list of the people who are truly the winners and losers in these by-elections which seems to have turned the tables on the country's ruling parties.

BJP announces candidates for Kolkata by-polls on 13 September

The BJP Monday announced it would field party leaders Samik Bhattacharya and Ritesh Tiwari from Basirhat South and Chowringhee assembly seats here for the 13 September by-polls.