In recent BJP turf Cooch Behar in Bengal, it’s Modi’s schemes vs Mamata’s
There is a distinct similarity in the respective pitches of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and BJP as they square up for the Lok Sabha elections in North Bengal.
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Amid CAA talk, citizenship turns sour for lives caught in India-Bangla enclave swap
Long before the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) became a reality, they were the nowhere people of Partition who became the celebrated new citizens of India.
Amid CAA talk, citizenship turns sour for lives caught in India-Bangla enclave swap
LONG before the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) became a reality, they were the nowhere people of Partition who became the celebrated new citizens of India.
Union MoS Nisith Pramanik: ‘Mamata said she had no family save the people of Bengal … But see how she brought in her nephew’
Nisith Pramanik is one of the BJP’s most recognisable faces in West Bengal and at 38 years old the youngest minister in the Narendra Modi government. The Union Minister of State for Home is looking to retain Cooch Behar, which is one of the three seats in north Bengal going to polls in the first phase on April 19. In an interview, Pramanik, who switched from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to the BJP before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, talks toThe Indian Express about attacks on central agencies in the state, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s comments on him, and why the problem of undocumented migration across the India-Bangladesh border continues to persist.
In Sandeshkhali, ‘it’s not Rekha’s fight alone’
How much difference can a month-and-a-half make? Rekha Patra’s list runs long.
Newsmaker | Oxford scholar, anti-CAA voice: TMC tasks historian with breaching Congress bastion in Bengal
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.
Decode Politics: Abhishek Banerjee’s imprint on TMC’s Lok Sabha list, over half are first-timers
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday released its list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, with 25, or more than half of its candidates, first-time contestants. With this, the TMC has attempted to quell any anti-incumbency sentiment that may exist against sitting MPs.
In BJP’s LS list for Bengal, mix of old and new faces; Suvendu’s younger brother to contest from father’s seat
Opting for a mix new faces like Bhojpuri actor Pawan Singh and trusted lieutenants like Union ministers Nisith Pramanik and Shantanu Thakur, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Saturday announced the nominees for 20 of the 42 seats in West Bengal for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.