Bengal has 294 assembly seats. Since the strength of a Vidhan Parishad cannot be more than a third of the legislative assembly, the state can have a maximum of 98 members in the legislative council.

The West Bengal government will set up a Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad), as per a decision taken up at the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday The Trinamool ...

Recently the Government of West Bengal has decided to set up a Legislative Council also known as Vidhan Parishad. To set up a Legislative Council a Bill must be introduced in the Legislative ...

A Legislative Council is the upper house in those states of India that have a bicameral state legislature which means having both the Houses -- Vidhan Sabha and Vidhan Parishad. The Vidhan Sabha ...

West Bengal has 294-member Assembly. In 2016, the Trinamool Congress had won 211 seats, more than what it had got in 2011. In this election, the BJP emerged as the second biggest political force ...

The election will be held across 3,317 gram panchayats in West Bengal across 63,329 gram panchayat seats; 9,730 panchayat samiti seats; and 928 zilla parishad seats. The total number of electors ...