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As all eyes remain peeled for who the Congress names from Amethi and Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh — till the early hours of Friday there were no indications from the party — and if the Gandhi siblings enter the fray, a political firestorm has hit West Bengal.
Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose rejected claims of sexual harassment made by an employee at the Raj Bhavan.
After her disqualification from Parliament in a cash-for-query case last December, Mahua Moitra, the TMC’s Krishnanagar nominee, is fighting a prestige battle in this election. In an interview with The Indian Express, she says the disqualification has not dampened her fight, speaks of the case, and claims she will defeat the BJP’s Amrita Roy (belonging to the erstwhile royal family of the area) by over one lakh votes. Excerpts:
The BJP finally announced its candidate against Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in the Lok Sabha election Tuesday, fielding its veteran leader Abhijit Das from the Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal. Das was the former president of the BJP’s South 24 Parganas district unit.
Soon after the two accused in Bengaluru's Rameshwaram cafe blast case were arrested from West Bengal on Friday, the Bharatiya Janata Party was quick to jump the guns at the ruling Trinamool Congress with claims that the state, under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has turned into a safe haven for terrorists.
Jitendra Kumar Tiwari, a prominent leader from the largely Hindi-speaking region of Asansol in West Bengal, is back in the headlines. The BJP leader’s former party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), has accused him of meeting a National Investigation Agency (NIA) officer, SP Dhan Ram Singh, at his New Town residence in Kolkata on March 26, after the Lok Sabha election dates were announced, in order to “hatch a conspiracy against TMC leaders in exchange for money”.
Senior Congress Shashi Tharoor, who is eyeing a fourth consecutive win from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in the upcoming 2024 scheduled in seven phases beginning on April 19, has declared his assets's value in nomination papers.
With the Lok Sabha polls less than two-and-a-half weeks away, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the principal Opposition BJP in West Bengal are ramping up their campaigns, but the seat-sharing agreement between the CPI(M)-led Left Front, Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF) has still not been finalised due to lack of consensus between them over several constituencies.