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Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress on Sunday declared its candidates for all 42 seats of West Bengal. TMC's list includes some high-profile names like former cricketer Yusuf Pathan, who is fielded from Bahrampore, a seat represented by Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury since 1999. Expelled TMC MP Mahua Moitra will again contest the Lok Sabha election from the Krishnanagar seat.
There will be a distinctly different feel to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) rally at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground this Sunday, from where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee are all set to launch their Lok Sabha campaign. Unlike the upbeat and assertive rally five years ago at the same historic grounds, there is an undercurrent of apprehension in the party ranks heading into the ‘Jana Garjan Sabha (People’s Roar Rally)’.
The ongoing turmoil in Manipur, the Sandeshkhali incident in West Bengal, the farmers’ agitation in Punjab, plans for a nationwide roll out of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and a policy on population control are among the key contemporary issues which could be discussed at the upcoming baithak (meeting) of theRSS‘s apex policy-making body, the Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS), in Nagpur next week.
The suspended Trinamool leader Sheikh Shahjahan, key accused in the Sandeshkhali extortion, land grab, and sexual assault cases was handed over to the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday. The CBI then took Shahjahan to Joka ESI Hospital for his medical examination.
As the poll battle in West Bengal heats up, Sandeshkhali has emerged as the focal point, with the BJP zeroing in on allegations of sexual abuse of women in the area by strongmen of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Five days after he tore into the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led West Bengal government over the Sandeshkhali row, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be back in West Bengal on Wednesday to address a rally in Barasat in North 24 Parganas and is expected to again take on the Mamata Banerjee-led party over the issue.
It is a constituency that has made a major contribution to the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) electoral success in West Bengal, most recently in the 2021 Assembly polls, and is also a major focus of the BJP’s electoral push as Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to return to power for a third straight term.
With Prime Minister Narendra Modi setting a target of 370 seats for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the party is working out a strategy to put special focus on the women voters in major battleground states. PM Modi is likely to make some “big announcements” in this regard on March 8 on the occasion of International Women’s Day.