Murshidabad is rare Bengal pocket where CPM-Congress alliance is still a force to reckon with
Murshidabad district, which votes today, has a 70% Muslim populace. CPI(M) and Congress still continue to dominate the area and pose serious threat to Trinamool.
Madhuparna Das 26 April, 2021 9:06 am IST Text Size:
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Murshidabad: The district of Murshidabad, Bengal’s third largest with 22 assembly seats, is headed for a direct fight. The battle lines in the former administrative headquarters of undivided Bengal have been drawn primarily between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the Sanjukta Morcha, an alliance of Left parties, the Congress and new entrant Indian Secular Front (ISF).
No one held, a month after the murder of a disabled man Our Correspondent, Mymensingh Our Correspondent, Mymensingh
Family members of a man who was killed over land dispute in Mymensingh on December 25 alleged that they were being threatened by the accused.
The victim, Mozammel Hossain Babul, 50, had been running a small grocery shop at his home in Kalyanpur village of Mymensingh Sadar since 2007.
No accused has been arrested yet in this connection.
Talking to this correspondent, Babul s wife Sheuly Akter, 45, who works as a domestic help in the capital, said her husband used to pull rickshaw in Dhaka. In 1995, he had an accident and was admitted to the Pangu Hospital, where his right leg had to be amputated.