Photograph: Sabyasachi Mukherjee/Facebook I have always been intrigued by the fact that Sabyasachi Mukherjee never considered moving out of the City of Joy to the Maximum City. With the opening of his newest store, he has instead, in some way, transported his hometown to the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. When I entered through
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How West Bengal Halted the BJPâs Chariot
This left-liberal group decided to swing in Mamata Banerjee s favour this time and its numbers surely helped supersede the negative anti-incumbency votes.
West Bengal BJP office wears a deserted look after partys defeat to TMC in state assembly polls, in Kolkata, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Photo: PTI
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The election results in West Bengal are still coming in, and âleadsâ are being replaced by âwinsâ or otherwise. Even so, one is perhaps entitled to stick out oneâs neck to try to make sense out the most spectacular loss that the BJP has been handed in seven years.
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;
BJP Names Candidates for Third, Fourth Phases of Bengal Assembly Polls
The BJP has fielded a Union minister, three sitting MPs, a noted economist and several film personalities for the high-stakes battle in the state.
BJP Bengal president Dilip Ghosh with party workers at Jirat, Hooghly. Photo: Twitter/@DilipGhoshBJP
Politics15/Mar/2021
New Delhi/Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday came out with the names of 63 candidates for the third and fourth phases of assembly polls in West Bengal, nominating four MPs including Union minister Babul Supriyo and several new faces, triggering protests and resignations in various parts of the state.