West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021: Does a ‘Party Society’ Really Subsume the Politics of ‘Identity’ and ‘Development’?
While West Bengal’s “exceptionalism” is often touted to explain the claimed lack of communal and caste-based politics in the state, the rise of populist forces has somehow managed to take advantage of identitarian fault lines without creating space for democratic political mobilisation of marginalised sections.
Elections for 294 seats of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are scheduled to be held between 27 March and 29 April 2021 in eight phases.
The key political players in the upcoming elections include:
(i) The All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) and its allies, including the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha;
Telangana busts passport racket, 4 Bangladeshis held
By IANS |
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Tue, Feb 23 2021 22:48 IST |
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Hyderabad, Feb 23 : Police in Cyberabad on Tuesday said they have busted a passport racket with the arrest of eight people including four Bangladeshis and two policemen.
The accused were arrested for fraudulently obtaining Indian passports from Nizamabad district of Telangana.
Cyberabad Police Commissioner V. C. Sajjanar told a news conference that as many as 72 passports were fraudulently obtained.
The police have sent reports to Regional Passport Officer (RPO) Hyderabad for cancelation of these passports. We have also requested the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) to issue lookout circulars against the passport holders, the Commissioner said.