Skip to content
FeedAtom
Sign in
Economy, business and financePolitics

Congress candidate for Nandigram bye-poll arrested hours after Mamata extends support

The Congress candidate for the Nandigram Assembly bye-elections in West Bengal was arrested on Friday in a 2007 murder case, said party MP KC Venugopal.

Scroll5 sources1 min readFiled September 18, 2026

How it developed

Every report in this story, oldest first.

  1. Times of IndiaLatest
    Rahul Gandhi: 'My message to students: you have nothing to fear. We are standing with you'
  2. Hindustan Times
    BJP wins Nandigram bypoll; Chandranath Rath's mother Hasirani secures landslide victory
  3. Times of India
    Bengal bypolls: BJP surges further ahead in Nandigram; Congress trails in second place - top developments
  4. Times of India
    Bypolls results 2026: Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry brace for closely watched verdicts
  5. Telangana Today
    Bengal bypolls: Voting gets underway in Nandigram, Rejinagar constituencies
  6. India Today
    Tamil Nadu By-Polls: Dharapuram & Madurantakam Vote in TVK's First Test
  7. Hindustan Times
    Bypolls election voting LIVE: Voting begins in 6 seats across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Puducherry
  8. India Today
    Nandigram, Rejinagar gear up for final campaign push ahead of October 6 bypolls
  9. Scroll
    Bengal: CPI Nandigram candidate alleges BJP member attacked him during bye-poll campaign
  10. ScrollBroke it
    Congress candidate for Nandigram bye-poll arrested hours after Mamata extends support

Related stories

Other reporting on the same subject, newest first.

Get this in your inbox

Pick your topics and we will send one ranked edition a day.

Start free

    Cookies

    We count visits without cookies. Analytics tools that do set cookies only run if you allow them.