Why Are Rahul Gandhi, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Campaigning on Two Different Lines in Bengal?
While Gandhi has been targeting the Narendra Modi government, and relatively speaking little of TMC and Mamata Banerjee, Chowdhury has been unleashing severe criticism against Banerjee.
Rahul Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Illustration: The Wire/Facebook.
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When the West Bengal assembly election is making national headlines daily and virtually eclipsed elections that got over in three other states and one union territory, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi only arrived in the state on April 14âwhen four of eight phases of the election got over.
Left Trusts Young Turks to Take on Political Heavyweights in Bengal
âTraditionally, CPI(M)âs politics has centred around land rights and peasantsâ movements. But these young leaders have a much broader political perspective, said Rajat Roy, assistant professor at Presidency University.
CPI(M) candidate in Bally Dipsita Dhar campaigns in her constituency. Photo: Author provided
Politics13/Mar/2021
Kolkata: In a significant departure from its erstwhile inclination to put faith in the old guard, the CPI(M) has named a number of young candidates â mostly present or former student leaders â for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal.
The Wire in November 2020 had quoted senior CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty as having said that the party was nurturing young upcoming leaders who would be brought to the forefront of electoral politics at the right time.
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Congress has called it a ‘tactics to gain sympathy’
KOLKATA: The main opposition BJP has alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was trying to turn a simple accident into a pre-planned conspiracy after she claimed that she was allegedly attacked by some unknown miscreants in Nandigram on Wednesday evening.
The saffron party has demanded a CBI investigation into the matter. It can happen that she met with an accident but to claim that she was deliberately pushed is not acceptable. She has a lot of security personnel guarding her round the clock, BJP s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said.
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