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KOLKATA: A social media post sharing personal numbers of 14 Trinamool Congress and BJP candidates and asking people to reach out to them in case of any need for oxygen, blood, mask, ambulance and sanitiser has gone viral, prompting the leaders to keep their phones switched off. Among those listed are Mukul Roy, Subhendu Adhikari, Rajib Banerjee, Babul Supriyo, Raj Chakrabarty, Sayantika Banerjee, Parno Mittra, Koushani Mukherjee, Yash Dasgupta, Rudranil Ghosh, Srabanti Chatterjee, Kanchan Mallick, June Malliah and Vaishali Dalmiya. Addressing them as “Bijemool volunteers”, the post takes a dig at those who had promised to work for the people when they had joined politics. Trinamool’s Barrackpore candidate Raj Chakrabarty claimed his “comrade friends” were spreading the post. “I don’t need to prove to anyone what I’m doing for the people. Interestingly, the post doesn’t share any number of Left candidates. It smacks of hatred. Initially, I had thought it was a ....
In West Bengal, CPM betting on youth power to deliver SECTIONS Share Synopsis The CPM has fielded a bunch of fresh and young faces in the West Bengal assembly election, hoping to attract youth to the party that has lost considerable ground since the 2011 defeat to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. Agencies The CPM has fielded a bunch of fresh and young faces in the West Bengal assembly election, hoping to attract youth to the party that has lost considerable ground since the 2011 defeat to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. The party is banking on candidates such as Meenakshi Mukherjee (Nandigram), Srijan Bhattacharya (Singur), Aishe Ghosh (Jamuria) and Dipsita Dhar (Bally) as it builds a new line of young leaders to take it forward. A party leader said nearly 70% of its candidates this time are in the age group of 25-50 years. ....
Ashok Lahiri's seat goes to a local, more BJP top guns to contest; party announces 156 more names indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Four MPs, actors, defectors, and an economist, BJP raises stakes in Bengal game SECTIONS Last Updated: Mar 15, 2021, 12:00 AM IST Share Synopsis In the ST-dominated Alipurduar constituency which has many tea estates, Lahiri is pitted against TMC’s sitting MLA Sourav Chakraborty who polled over 44% of votes in 2016, and was recently in a controversy for taking Covid-19 vaccine despite not being a frontline worker. Agencies A senior BJP leader, on condition of anonymity, told ET that Lahiri and many other MPs are being nominated to assure the people of a strong government if the party wins. The BJP on Sunday announced that it will field former chief economic adviser to the central government and member of the 15th Finance Commission, Ashok Lahiri, from the Alipurduar seat, and minister of state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge against TMC minister Arup Biswas, and former journalist Swapan Dasgupta from Tarakes ....