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As the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal enter its last two laps, the Mamata Banerjee government’s Lakshmir Bhandar scheme seems to have taken centre stage.
For the BJP, the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal is crucial as the party aims to exceed the 18-seat mark out of the state’s 42 seats, which it had achieved in 2019.
Amid a thronging crowd, with some people requesting selfies and others showering flower petals, actress-turned-politician Rachana Banerjee hit the campaign trail on a sizzling Thursday morning, with temperature hovering around 34°C and humidity over 91%.
In the wake of the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged liquor policy scam, the AAP and the Opposition INDIA bloc are facing a formidable challenge on the eve of the Lok Sabha polls.
The Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal will be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1, across 42 constituencies. The first phase of the elections in the state will kick off in north Bengal on April 19, while Kolkata will vote in the final phase on June 1.
Among the first-time candidates that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has fielded for the Lok Sabha elections is 42-year-old academic and former journalist Shahnawaz Ali Raihan who faces the tough task of helping the party win a seat that the Congress’s Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, the brother of former Union Minister A B A Ghani Khan Choudhury, has held since 2009.
At a time when the BJP is seeing the influx of bigwigs like former CMs, MLAs and MPs from other parties into its fold in other states, the party is seeing leaders deserting it in West Bengal.
Days after tendering his resignation as a Trinamool Congress MLA and quitting the Mamata Banerjee-led party, senior West Bengal political leader Tapas Roy joined the BJP on Wednesday.