 | Mamata's TMC registers landslide victory in Kolkata civic pollsEstablishing record dominance, the TMC secured a 72% vote share when the LF bagged 12% and the BJP 9% respectively. The Congress got a 4% vote share. |
 | ‘Trinamool brought outsiders to unleash muscle in civic polls’The saffron party alleged that the TMC had kept “these musclemen” at secret places on the outskirts of the state capital. |
 | Calcutta HC rejects BJP's plea to stay Kolkata civic pollsThe State Election Commission (SEC) and the state government had earlier told the court that elections to 111 municipal bodies will be held in six to eight phases by May 2022. |
 | No ‘outsider’ campaigners for BJP candidates in Kolkata civic pollsPolitical observers attribute the BJP’s U-turn to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s aggressive pitch of branding the saffron camp as a party of ‘‘outsiders’’ in the run up to the Bengal polls. |
 | Two weeks before Kolkata civic polls, BJP hardly makes any noiseThough the saffron camp’s election committee was formed last month, it convened just once and was skipped by many members. |
 | Kolkata civic polls: Congress names 66 candidates in first list, to go it alone in most wardsThis is the first list of contestants while the party will extend support to independent candidates in 22-25 seats to ensure the defeat of the Trinamool Congress and the BJP. |
 | Trinamool releases candidate list for Kolkata civic polls, drops 39 sitting councillorsThe ruling party in West Bengal in the last KMC polls in 2015 had won 126 wards. |
 | Kolkata, Howrah civic polls on Dec 19; BJP may move HC seeking elections to all municipalitiesElections to more than 100 civic bodies including municipal corporations of Kolkata and Howrah have been due for a long time, primarily because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. |
