Bengal polls: BJP announces second list of candidates | India News indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The BJP on Sunday came out with the names of 63 candidates for the third and fourth phases of assembly polls in West Bengal, nominating four MPs including Union minister Babul Supriyo and several new faces, triggering protests and resignations in various parts of the state. In a surprise move, the party nominated Trinamool Congress turncoat and octogenarian sitting MLA of Singur, Rabindranath Bhattacharya. Of late, the BJP has not been nominating such elderly persons as poll candidates. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, party general secretary Arun Singh and Union ministers Supriyo and Debasree Chaudhuri released the names of 63 candidates for West Bengal assembly polls.
In a Calcutta Gripped With Naxal Violence and Police Brutality, People Lost Sons, Brothers and Friends
For most of the early 1970s, students from prestigious colleges moved to the far left fired by ideological fervour.
A still from Mrinal Sen s film Calcutta 71 that captures life in the city during the time of the Naxal uprising.
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The year 1971 was marked with several âbig victoriesâ â in politics, cricket and in war â all of which had long term implications for India. The national mood was buoyant, even if the country continued to struggle with endemic problems.
Fifty years later, we look back at those times and evoke some of that mood.Â
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West Bengal Assembly elections | Singur to Nandigram, CPI(M) puts faith on youth leaders
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Ex-JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh to contest from Jamuria
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Left Front Chairman Biman Bose with CPI(M) State Secretary Surya Kanta Mishra, Congress leader Pradip Bhattacharjee, Abdul Mannan and ISF Leder Simul Soren during announcement of their party candidates list for upcoming State Assembly elections, in Kolkata, Friday, March 5, 2021. File
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Ex-JNU Students’ Union president Aishe Ghosh to contest from Jamuria
From president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students’ Union Aishe Ghosh to State president of Democratic Youth Federation of India Meenakshi Mukherjee, the CPI (M)-led Left Front on Wednesday put faith on several youth leaders by giving them ticket for the Assembly polls. While Ms. Ghosh will contest from Jamuria in Bardhaman Paschim, Ms. Mukherjee will contest from Nandigram.