"Participatory women s groups scaled up by the Indian public health system reduced neonatal mortality equitably in a largely rural state and were highly cost-effective, warranting scale-up in other high-mortality rural settings." The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends community mobilisation with women s groups practising participatory learn
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 23, 2021 10:01 AM
Joyel Murmu campaigning in Habibpur. (Twitter)
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The BJP started making inroads in Habibpur in the 1990s when the Scheduled Castes were the first to turn saffron.
For nearly seven decades, more than 1 lakh tribals of Habibpur Assembly segment in Bengalâs Malda district have been waiting for the promise of âliberationâ to come true.
âLiberationâ from poverty, hunger, disease, unemployment, illiteracy and backwardness. This is the âliberationâ that the communists had been promising them for the past 70 years.
Far from this Left promise from coming true, the condition of the tribals have only deteriorated. So much so that an overwhelming majority of the able-bodied among them have to migrate to other states in search of employment as labourers.
Bengal: As BJP Aggressively Engineers Defections, TMC Struggles to Retain Leaders
TMC candidate from Habibpur in Malda district, Sarala Murmu, reversed the usual trend of openly disgruntled TMC leaders joining BJP by jumping ship even after she had been named candidate.
Former TMC leaders, including Mamata Banerjee s confidant, Sonali Guha, join BJP on Monday, March 8. Photo: Twitter/@Mosarra30650416
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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Habibpur in Malda district â Sarala Murmu â met Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Kolkata on Sunday and joined the party on Monday, March 8. The development prompted an embarrassed TMC to replace Murmu with Pradeep Baskey as the candidate of Habibpur constituency which goes to polls on April 26. The party cited âill healthâ.
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TMC MLA Sonali Guha (R) and Tollywood actress Tanusree Chakraborty (2R) with state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and BJP national vice president Mukul Roy, during an event to felicitate new members to the BJP party in Kolkata.
The Trinamool Congress on Monday lost five more sitting MLAs and the control of the Malda Zilla Parishad to the BJP as defections continued to rock West Bengal s ruling party ahead of the assembly polls.
Four-time MLAs Sonali Guha, a close associate of TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee for decades, and 80-year-old Rabindranath Bhattacharya, a prominent face of the Singur movement, joined the saffron party after they were denied the poll ticket.
TMC changes its candidate for Habibpur assembly seat
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Last Updated: Mar 08, 2021, 12:06 PM IST
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A senior TMC leader said the party nominates a candidate for a particular constituency based on his or her winning possibility and not personal desires .
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The TMC on Monday decided to replace Sarala Murmu, its candidate for Malda district s Habibpur assembly constituency, with Pradeep Baskey, amid speculation that she might join the BJP after allegedly being denied a seat that she desired.
A senior TMC leader said the party nominates a candidate for a particular constituency based on his or her winning possibility and not personal desires .