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Bengal polls: Nadda launches Lokhho Sonar Bangla manifesto crowdsourcing campaign
JP Nadda said that the BJP aims to build a West Bengal where women can live without fear and students from the Matua community get education and jobs to lead a good life.
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KOLKATA: The slugfest between the TMC and the BJP intensified over the issue of understanding Bengal’s cultural legacy.
The saffron camp’s national president JP Nadda on Thursday accused the ruling party of destroying Bengal’s cultural heritage and promised to bring back the state s glory’ if the party wrests power in the elections.
Jai Shri Ram slogan at Netaji event: Trinamool likely to move censure motion in Bengal Assembly
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday refused to speak at the event attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Jai Shri Ram slogans were raised by a section of the audience.
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KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Monday said that it is likely to move a censure motion in the West Bengal assembly over raising of Jai Shri Ram slogan at an official programme to celebrate the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, claiming that it was an insult to the freedom fighter as well as the chief minister.
TMC vs BJP: Why the contest is wide open in West Bengal
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Updated: Friday, January 1, 2021, 14:49 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 01: In the high-octane West Bengal assembly elections slated to be held later this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party has emerged as the main rival to the formidable rival in the state - Mamata Banerjee.
Flashpoints in West Bengal politics were one too many, as the state hogged national limelight for all the wrong reasons and witnessed widespread political violence, as the parties geared up for a high-stakes assembly elections.
The BJP has claimed that more than 130 of its cadres were killed or found dead under mysterious circumstances, since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Notwithstanding the surge in COVID-19 cases and a super cyclone that left a trail of destruction in its wake, West Bengal s political cauldron was on the boil through 2020, with the ruling TMC and BJP crossing swords at the drop of a hat, stoking tension and triggering clashes. Flashpoints in West Bengal politics were one too many, as the state hogged national limelight for all the wrong reasons and witnessed widespread political violence, as the parties geared geared up for a high-octane assembly election next year. The BJP has claimed that more than 130 of its cadres were killed or found dead under mysterious circumstances, since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.