Tag: Bengal Elections 2021
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Worried about post-poll violence in Bengal? Fact check before forwarding pictures & videos
Kolkata: Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut’s account has been suspended permanently by Twitter. The PM has contacted the governor. Dilip Ghosh has been demanding for the oath ceremony to be postponed, while BJP has officially moved to the Apex court demanding for President’s rule in Bengal. All this has happened within 48 hours of the thumping…
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TMC takes decisive lead in historic Bengal election
Kolkata: By the afternoon of May 2, Trinamool Congress, the ruling party of West Bengal has taken a decisive lead in the historic Bengal Election Results 2021 by leading on 207 seats, while BJP trends on 82 seats out of 292 seats that went on the poll. Significantly, the Left alliance is leading only on…
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Second wave of Covid-19: As CPM restrains from big rallies, will PM-HM and EC listen now
Kolkata: On April 14, India recorded almost two lakh new Covid-19 cases. Earlier in the day a political party in India, the West Bengal unit of Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPIM), sensing the seriousness of the situation, took the decision not to hold big rallies in the remaining phases of the ongoing polls in…
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Why every sane person should worry about what happened at Sitalkunchi and thereafter
Kolkata: When central forces gunned down four persons at Sitalkunchi, Cooch Behar, as a reporter for almost two decades and observer from outside Bengal, I was shocked to the core. I have reported from Naxal hotbeds too but I have not witnessed such ‘firing or encounter’ by the forces during the polls. The reason being,…
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Four killed in Central Forces firing; Trinamul writes to election commission, demands action
Kolkata: In a grave turn of the event during the fourth phase of West Bengal elections 2021, at least four people were killed when central forces open fired during the fourth phase of polls at Cooch Behar’s Sitalkunchi area on Saturday. At booth number 126 AC –Sitalkuchi, 4 people have died from the bullets of…
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Abbas Siddiqui is vocal about the Constitution and raising issues that are affecting the people of Bengal– Dr Fuad Halim
Kolkata: Dr Fuad Halim, the Sanyukta Morcha candidate from Ballygunge constituency in West Bengal assembly polls, is again contesting against one of the heavyweights of Bengal politics, Subrata Mukharjee. Dr Fuad, known as the Good Samaritan doctor or people’s doctor, was in the news during the lockdown for providing dialysis service for Rs 50 only…
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Narendra Modi’s remark—Didi-O-Didi backfires in Bengal
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Didi-O-Didi remark has done more harm to the campaigning of the Bharatiya Janata Party during the West Bengal elections than helping the party. PM Modi has good oratory skills, and it catches the attention of the masses. But the use of certain words, tones have many a time raised the…
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On a wheelchair, Mamata leads 8 km padyatra in Nandigram
Nandigram: A fractured leg didn’t stop Bengal’s wheelchair-bound Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from reaching Nandigram to hold a roadshow. Amidst fierce election campaign that the state is witnessing, Banerjee was injured earlier this month during a rally, in the high stake constituency, which votes in the second phase of state elections on Thursday. On Monday,…
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Delhi Government Bill and Bihar Police Bill hint at a frightening future for the country
n its manifesto for the Delhi Assembly elections in 2013, BJP promised ‘full statehood to Delhi’. Now it has taken away whatever powers the Delhi Assembly and the elected government of Delhi had. The Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2021, adopted by Parliament, simply passes all the powers of the Assembly…
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“We will decide Mamata’s fate this time”
Continue from first two parts… The turncoats Both BJP MP Babul Supriyo and former TMC mayor cum Pandabeswar MLA Jitendra Tiwari drew criticisms for their roles in competitive communal violence in 2018. Tewari has recently joined BJP, apparently after coming under the CBI scanner over illegal coal mining and the saffron inroads in his main…