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›CPI(M) leader who defeated Mamata Banerjee 32 years back, blames TMC supremo for rise of RSS in Bengal
CPI(M) leader who defeated Mamata Banerjee 32 years back, blames TMC supremo for rise of RSS in Bengal
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CPI(M) leader who defeated Mamata Banerjee 32 years back, blames TMC supremo for rise of RSS in BengalPTI
Last Updated: Apr 24, 2021, 04:34 PM IST
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Prof. Malini Bhattacharya, a leading academic, maintains Banerjee retains close relations with the RSS even today while indulging in slanging matches with the BJP leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.
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Former CPI(M) MP Prof. Malini Bhattacharya, who had handed chief minister Mamata Banerjee, then a Congress candidate in the 1989-Lok Sabha elections from Jadavpur seat, her sole electoral defeat, does not feel the Trinamool Congress supremo is the face of the resistance to BJP, and believes her rule facilitated the rise of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in the
BJP has a poll song for Bengal. But so does everybody else
The BJP has hit out at the TMC over the repeated use of the outsider jibe against the saffron party through a new song. This is also a counter song to the one sung by some Bengali artistes a month back.
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Screengrab from BJP s new song. Who are the outsiders in Bengal? They are the ones who threw Taslima Nasreen out of Bengal over a Fatwa. They are those who were behind the massacre in Marchijhapi. They were those who were behind the killing of Sadhus in Bijon Setu . This is the crux of a new song from BJP to counter the political narrative of its rival camps.
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