The announcement comes days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda visited the state and held several organisational meetings with the West Bengal unit of the party and formed the election committee.
Over 500 people from Rajbanshi community protest statehood call Under the banner of Punyabhumi Khalisamari Janapad Basi (residents of the pious land of Khalisamari), the daylong demonstration was held at a local school ground
Over 500 people from the Rajbanshi community, including academics, intellectuals and Trinamul supporters, met at Khalisamari in Mathabhanga subdivision of Cooch Behar on Sunday to protest the separate statehood demand recently raised by a few BJP leaders like John Barla.
Khalisamari, a hamlet 55km off Cooch Behar town, is the birthplace of Panchanan Barma, the most revered statesman of the Rajbanshis.
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Under the banner of “Punyabhumi Khalisamari Janapad Basi” (residents of the holy Khalisamari land)”, the protest was held at a school ground. “In 1905, Panchanan Barma fought the partition of Bengal decided by the British. We are his follower
Girindra Nath Barman, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate from Mathabhanga, was attacked by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers while he was returning from election campaign on Thursday, alleged TMC workers. BJP goons vandalised his car and attacked him. He has sustained head injuries. We demand action, said a TMC worker. Polling for the Mathabhanga constituency will be held on Saturday in the fourth phase of the West Bengal assembly elections.
BJP has fielded Sushil Barman against TMC s Girindra Nath Barman and CPI(M) s Ashok Barman from Mathabhanga constituency. The first three phases of the eight-phased West Bengal polls have already taken place. The fourth phase of the elections will be held on Saturday. Counting of the votes will take place on May 2.