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Sagarneel Sinha The Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been successful in spreading its roots in the northeast. The return of the saffron party, that too with a majority for the first time, in the north-eastern state of Manipur in the recent Assembly polls shows that it is establishing itself as a major player in the region, where changing of political loyalties is common. True that the BJP has presently four Chief Ministers in the region, but […]
Mamata Banerjee to contest from Nandigram: Masterstroke or political desperation?
The message from Banerjee is clear: She is in no mood to cede an inch of West Bengal to the BJP, and that’s the reason why she picked Nandigram a symbolic seat representing her rise to power Sagarneel Sinha
File image: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
Political developments in West Bengal have taken an interesting turn with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s decision to contest from Nandigram. Nandigram, along with Singur, was the Trinamool Congress’ (TMC) battleground which aided the party to capture power in 2011 by ending the three-decade-plus Communist Party of India (Marxist) rule in the state.