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The ruckus is over returning Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan dropping KK Shailaja from his new Cabinet that is to be sworn in tomorrow. Shailaja’s sterling work as health minister during the first wave of the Covid pandemic and, before that, her handling of the Nipah outbreak in 2018 as well as flood relief in 2019, brought her rightly into national and even international spotlight.
Meanwhile, on Planet CPI(M), a diaeclectic war of words has broken out between its Kerala unit fresh off the boat after winning the state assembly elections convincingly and historically back-to-back and the party’s Bengal unit. The latter, for those interested, now exists in a pure ideologue, Platonic and probably gluten-free form, thanks to returning home with the same number of seats in the 2021 West Bengal assembly as the now non-existent Akhil Bharatiya Ram Rajya Parishad did in the 1952 Bengal assembly elections: zero.
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May 10, 2021 Share
TINY TWIST IN the tail can sometimes tell us more than a spin of the head. While the headlines of the Bengal election go to Mamata Banerjee, there is much to learn from the fate of a party which won only one seat out of the 292 in the new Assembly.
It was an instant project which adopted a grand name for the ballot: Rashtriya Secular Majlis Party. It also called itself the Indian Secular Front. Its objective was slightly less inclusive: it positioned itself as the electoral vehicle of the Bengali Muslim vote. The al-leged lure was its association with the venerated Furfura Sharif shrine in rural Hooghly. A long queue of experienced politicians, sombre-faced leftist and rightist opinion-makers, and industrious journalists immediately pronounced that the oratory of its leader, 34-year-old Abbas Siddiqui, and the sanctity of the shrine would magnetise the Muslim vote towards this upstart entity.
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Bengal Cong incharge blames alliance with ISF for wipe out
By IANS |
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Mon, May 10 2021 16:03 IST |
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UP bypolls: Notice to Cong candidate for distributing money. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 10 : Distancing itself from the alliance with ISF, Congress West Bengal in-charge Jitin Prasada said in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet on Monday that the alliance with the ISF ruined the party prospects in the state, sources said. He said that the ISF alliance was finalized by the Left parties and not the Congress.
At the time of elections, Congress leader Anand Sharma had raised the issue but was snubbed by Adheer Ranjan Chowdhury that the Left had given its share of seats to ISF.
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