LS Polls: Equating social welfare schemes with charity backfired for CPI-M in Bengal Kolkata: Equating the social welfare schemes introduced by the West
Election results 2024: A day after his defeat from the Baharampur parliamentary constituency, veteran Congress leader and five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday said he wasn't certain of what his political future would look like.
The unpaid dearness allowance (DA), at par with the Central government employees, and the accrued arrears seem to have impacted the popularity of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress among the state government employees as is evident from .
The party s prime mover in West Bengal and the state Pradesh Congress president was stunned by Trinamool Congress s star candidate and cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan who comprehensively defeated Chowdhury by a margin of over 85,000 votes.