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Weeks before it goes to the polls, the north Bengal hill constituency of Darjeeling is grappling with fast changing political equations as leaders are switching their allegiance and parties receiving support from unexpected quarters.
THE Lok Sabha election in Tamluk constituency in Purba Medinipur district is two months away (May 25), but on Wednesday, as BJP candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay came to offer prayers at a Kali Mandir in Mahishadal area, he didn’t want for a crowd.
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.
In the complicated terrain of West Bengal politics, the Matua community has increasingly become assertive over the past couple of decades. It is now a crucial vote bank that parties with the ambition of doing well in the state vie to keep on their side. With the Union government notifying the Citizenship Amendment Act rules, the BJP hopes to ensure that the Matuas stay with it, unlike the2021 Assembly elections, and help it build on the gains made five years ago.
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.
Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay of the Calcutta High Court who on Sunday announced his resignation from the judiciary on Tuesday has had run-ins with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government for almost two years now.
A day after the arrest of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Sheikh Shahjahan who has been accused of sexual harassment and land grabbing in Sandeshkali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on his first visit to West Bengal in three years.