High voltage drama as TMC supporters protest CBI detentions in Narada case
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Last Updated: May 17, 2021, 08:34 PM IST
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They hurled bricks, slippers and bottles at the central forces and tried to break open the gate to enter Nizam Palace, where the arrested TMC leaders were being kept. Violent clashes continued for several hours and then the protestors staged a sit-in protest to prevent the TMC leaders from being produced before court.
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A huge crowd of TMC supporters resorted to violence in front of the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata on Monday morning, violating all Covid protocol on the second day of the Bengal lockdown, following the arrest of TMC leaders and ministers in connection with the Narada case.
In Bidhannagar, pitch set for a Sujit-vs-Sabyasachi poll fight
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The Congress has also fielded the Congress-Left-ISF alliance (Sanjukta Morcha) supported candidate Abhisek Banerjee, a data solution architect by profession who has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry.
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Banerjee, the Sanjukta Morcha candidate, said that the aim was to have an overall development of Bidhannagar. “It is the need to have a ‘Smart Bidhannagar’ with overall civic development,” he said.
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 16, 2021)A tough contest is on the cards for the prestigious Bidhannagar assembly constituency that has about 2.3 lakh electorates covering the entire Salt Lake with its added areas and a large part of South Dum Dum municipality area. The constituency goes to polls on April 17. The battle here is primarily between the sitting Trinamool MLA Sujit Bose and former mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation BJP’s Sabyasachi Dut
The significance of Bengal elections
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As the two main rivals TMC and BJP deploy a variety strategies to capture power, it could be an inflexion point for the State
The ongoing Bengal Assembly election has assumed an extraordinary significance. Till 2021, it was almost unthinkable that a party which is traditionally perceived by the average Bengali to be a party of ‘Hindi-speaking vegetarians’ can assemble several lakh people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on Kolkata’s Brigade Parade ground. So, the BJP forming a government on its own or as part of a coalition in Bengal no longer seems impossible.
West Bengal Polls - Distance Between TMC and BJP Narrows Contest between 2 Parties
The ongoing Bengal Assembly election is being billed as the ‘mother of all state elections’ for several reasons. Never in the past have so many top Central leaders from Delhi – including PM, Home Minister and Defence Minister - addressed so many election meetings in Bengal, inviting the title of ‘helicopter daily passengers’ from Delhi.
First, for the BJP, Bengal is the proverbial last frontier yet to be conquered. Till 2021, it was almost unthinkable that a party which is traditionally perceived by the average Bengali to be a party of ‘Hindi-speaking non-Bengali vegetarians’ could assemble several lakhs of people chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ on the Brigade Parade ground of Kolkata which has been a bastion of first the CPI-M and then the All India Trinamul Congress.
2 Sujits & Sabyasachis pitted against a lesser-known Abhisek
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While sitting Trinamool MLA and fire services minister Sujit Bose and former Trinamool heavyweight-turned-BJP leader Sabyasachi Dutta are key contenders, two independent candidates who are namesakes of Bose and Dutta are also in the fray. There is also Congress candidate Abhisek Banerjee, a lawyer.
(This story originally appeared in on Apr 03, 2021)KOLKATA: It’s all about Dutta vs Dutta and Bose vs Bose, along with an Abhisek Banerjee (not Mamata Banerjee’s nephew) at West Bengal’s Bidhannagar assembly segment that will go to the polls on April 17.
While sitting Trinamool MLA and fire services minister Sujit Bose and former Trinamool heavyweight-turned-BJP leader Sabyasachi Dutta are key contenders, two independent candidates who are namesakes of Bose and Dutta are also in the fray. There is also Congress candidate Abhisek Banerjee, a lawyer.