PM Narendra Modi says Mamata Banerjee ‘doing politics with the dead’, she alleges phone tap
PM Modi and Mamata Banerjee
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday accused Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of “doing politics with the dead”, terming it “an old habit” of hers. Mamata responded by charging Modi with “intercepting” her phone calls and said he would be within the ambit of a CID probe she had ordered. “Don’t you have any shame that you intercept a CM’s phone? You should resign as PM,” she said.
Their war of words came a day after BJP released an audio tape of a purported conversation between Mamata and Trinamool’s Sitalkuchi candidate Partha Pratim Ray in the aftermath of the April 10 CISF firing that killed four people.
Scheduled Caste religious group with origins in Bangladesh is grappling with identity politics
On April 14, B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda held a road show in Bongaon town. The BJP, for which religious and sub-religious identities have emerged as the most crucial tool of the 2021 campaign in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the date and the place were well chosen.
Since the past two years, Bongaon, a sub-division in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, is witnessing a new identity politics around the Matua sect, a Scheduled Caste religious group with origins in Bangladesh.
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This is not 2019 and this is not the Lok Sabha elections. And it’s not hunky dory for the BJP anymore.
There is no apparent wave in its favour which will clean sweep all its opposition into the Bay of Bengal. Neither here in Bongaon, nor in the rest of the Bengal, though the BJP certainly has its share of committed, loyalist, or, silent and floating voters, including those who have been polarized, those who hate the Trinamool Congress for various reasons, and those who want some kind of change at the top. However, it is still not clear if that would help them cross the 100 mark in the 2021 assembly. Seasoned journalists say that even 80 could be tough.