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Four of 11 Assembly segments in Calcutta Calcutta Port, Bhowanipore, Rashbehari and Ballygunge go to the polls on Monday.
Voters in the remaining seven Chowringhee, Entally, Beliaghata, Jorasanko, Shyampukur, Maniktala and Kashipur-Belgachia will exercise their franchise on Thursday, the last day of the eight-phase polls in Bengal.
Of the 294 seats in Bengal, Calcutta has barely 4 per cent, but being the state capital, winning city seats is a matter of prestige for political parties.
In the 2016 Assembly polls, Trinamul had won all 11 seats comfortably. The 2019 Lok Sabha polls, however, sent a warning signal to the ruling party as the BJP secured leads in Rashbehari, Jorasanko and Shyampukur Assembly segments. The BJP breathed down Trinamul’s neck in two more Maniktala where Trinamul had a slender lead of less than 1,000 votes, and Bhowanipore, a constituency represented by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, where the ruling party had a 3,500-vote lead.
Debraj Mitra | | Published 14.04.21, 01:29 AM
Salman Rushdie finds “hope in the determination of India’s women and college students to resist” sectarianism and “dismiss the darkness”.
Since Parliament passed the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act on December 11, 2019, protests led by the young and the women have been held across the country. Calcutta emerged as one of the epicentres of that rallying cry against the new citizenship thrust.
The Telegraph tracks the journey of some of the protesters who had been at the forefront of the movement a year ago and whose struggles have found their way into the electoral battle of Bengal. Many of them are back to doing their bit in resisting an “autocratic and majoritarian regime”. Here’s how