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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.
For CPI(M) supporters in West Bengal, all eyes are on the Murshidabad Lok Sabha seat where the party’s state secretary Md Salim is up against sitting Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abu Taher Khan, with the support of the Congress. Salim is a former MP who won from Raiganj in 2014 but lost the seat five years later.
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.
The Calcutta High Court’s decision last week to cancel the recruitment of almost 26,000 schoolteachers and non-teaching staff has set off a political firestorm in West Bengal amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, providing the Opposition BJP more ammunition with which to target the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
As three constituencies of West Bengal vote on Friday in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections, the school jobs “scam” is back in the spotlight following the Calcutta High Court’s order on Monday cancelling the appointment of over 25,000 teachers and non-teaching staff of government schools in the state.
With the Indian Secular Front (ISF) deciding to go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls, the CPI(M) that was struggling to arrive at a consensus on the high-profile Diamond Harbour constituency has picked one of its promising youth leaders to take on Trinamool Congress (TMC) number two and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the incumbent MP.
In another setback for the Left-Congress alliance in West Bengal, the Indian Secular Front (ISF) has decided to go its own way, declaring that it plans to contest all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
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.