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The Congress leadership on Monday blew hot and cold with its West Bengal chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury who is caught in the party’s crosshairs over his attacks on Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee.
A common sight that greets you in Kolkata’s northern suburb of Barrackpore is giant banners and posters with caricatures of Arjun Singh as “Palturam (turncoat)”. Next to him is a caricature of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari offering the sitting MP a “BJP lollipop”, as Singh’s opponent Partha Bhowmik, the state PWD minister, enjoys the view, sitting on an “MP chair”.
The Serampore constituency near Kolkata in West Bengal is witnessing a high-voltage campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections, where senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and sitting MP Kalyan Banerjee, 67, is locked in a triangular contest with BJP candidate and his former son-in-law Kabir Shankar Bose and the CPM’s 30-year-old candidate Dipsita Dhar.
TWO LEADERS from the Opposition were asked to drop the terms “communal authoritarian regime” and “draconian laws” and the word “Muslims” from their speeches made on All India Radio and Doordarshan during the broadcast time allocated to them in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections.
On a hot day early this month, at Nabagram’s CPI(M) area committee office in the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, local party leader Sanjib Pandey went into a huddle with the Congress’s block president, Dhirendranath Yadav, and its anchal chief Sujoy Ghosh to discuss their poll strategies. Outside, the flags of both the parties fluttered in the summer wind.
In the backdrop of a woman contractual staffer levelling molestation allegations against West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday said it would show the related CCTV footage to 100 people on Thursday, except “politician” Mamata Banerjee and “her police”.
Following the molestation charge levelled by women employees against West Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose, Kolkata Raj Bhavan on Wednesday said it is willing to show the CCTV footage related to the case to 100 people, but not to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and "her police".
A former journalist, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh often tends to be in the news himself. The latest such instance, which has seen him land in trouble with the party, comes in the middle of a closely contested Lok Sabha election during which he has been removed from his party post and the TMC’s list of star campaigners for targeting the party’s leadership.