Although caste is a crucial reality in West Bengal, a declining Dalit movement post partition, the neglect of caste questions by the Left Front, and the failure of forging a broader Dalit solidarity due to fragmented Dalit constituencies have led to the invisibility of caste in the politics of the state.
“Bengalis have no understanding of caste,” Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd once said in an interview in Kolkata (Bhattacharya 2018). Although caste has an important role in the social and political domain of West Bengal, the Bengali
bhadralok does not seem to have any understanding of the role of caste. Apart from Shepherd, several other scholars have also doubted the dominant narrative of the absence of caste in West Bengal’s politics. Ashok Mitra wrote, “there must be something odd about a state which, professedly so secular and anti-sectarian, has yet not produced a single Jagjivan Ram, Kamraj, Buta Singh or Rafi Ahmed Kidwai to hold major portfolio” (Sen 2018b). Analysin
Now actress turned TMC MP Satabdi Roy taunts Mamata Banerjee, to take a ‘decision’ soon
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January 15, 2021
Kolkata, Jan 15: Amid an ongoing exodus from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy on Friday hinted that she is having problems with the ruling party in West Bengal and may take a decision on Saturday. In an exclusive phone interview to Zee News, the actor-turned-politician claimed that she is not being informed about party events in her constituency.
She also said that she wanted to visit her constituency but her name was removed from the invites and was also not invited for most programmes. The distance was gradually increasing in the party. It is for the party to find out who are these people for whom I couldn’t go to my own constituency, added Roy.
3 Muslim men wrongly framed in false case of conversion of woman: UP Police
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January 3, 2021
Bareilly, Jan 3: Two days after a case was lodged against three Muslim men for the alleged forcible religious conversion of a 24-year-old woman in this Uttar Pradesh district, police on Sunday said they were incorrectly framed. On September 9, 2020, she left home along with a man named Abrar. Subsequently, a complaint of abduction was lodged at the Fareedpur police station. The woman stayed with Abrar in Delhi s Tughlaqabad for around 15 days and then returned home, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Bareilly Rohit Singh Sajwan told PTI.
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Buta Singh, Indira Gandhi s right hand man, passes away
ByRadhika RamaseshanRadhika Ramaseshan / Updated: Jan 3, 2021, 10:40 IST
Congress leader and no stranger to controversies
Buta Singh had the luck of the devil. When the senior Congress leader fell from grace, it was not a fall many would have survived in the rough-and-tumble of politics, but he managed to scrape through. That was Singh, the former Union minister, a Dalit from Punjab, who always lived life on the edge. The news of his death on January 2, in Delhi’s AIIMS at 86, comes as a huge blow to a party already reeling with the loss of stalwarts like Ahmed Patel and Motilal Vora.