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Election after election, women voters have continued to ally themselves with Mamata Banerjee’s party
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The colour of victory: Trinamool activists celebrate in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal on May 2, 2021.
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Election after election, women voters have continued to ally themselves with Mamata Banerjee’s party
Of the various factors that contributed to the Trinamool Congress’s victory in the Assembly election, the support of women voters for Mamata Banerjee is significant. And this is not new for this election even in polls held during the last decade, women have always come out in support of Mamata Banerjee. Not only have women voters managed to bridge the turnout deficit vis-à-vis men, but their voting preferences have also been different. For the fourth straight election in the State (counting both Assembly and Lok Sabha elections), women voted for the Trinamool in higher proportions than men.
Poll of polls: Tight fight in Bengal, DMK sweeps Tamil Nadu, Left in Kerala, BJP wins Assam
Poll of polls: Tight fight in Bengal, DMK sweeps Tamil Nadu, Left in Kerala, BJP wins Assam
The poll of five exit polls predicts a tight fight between the TMC and the BJP in the battle for Bengal. The poll predicts the BJP to win Assam; the Left Front to retain power in Kerala; the DMK-Congress alliance to win in Tamil Nadu; and the BJP likely to share power in Puducherry with help of its allies.
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UPDATED: April 30, 2021 00:23 IST
The poll of polls for the five assembly elections was done based on predictions of five exits polls. (Photo: Rahul Gupta/IndiaToday.in)
14 years after protests against land acquistion, jobs and industrialisation are the poll pitch in Singur
April 08, 2021
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From an anti-industry movement that catapulted Mamata Banerjee to power, Singur has come to symbolise new aspiration in Bengal Fourteen years after he spearheaded the movement against land acquisition for Tatas’ small car plant in Singur, 90-year-old Rabindranath Bhattacharjee – once considered Mamata Banerjee’s lieutenant – now, BJP’s MLA aspirant in the region is batting for industry and jobs.
Clad in white kurta, dhoti and slippers, the man – the oldest person in Bengal’s electoral politics this year – says his former party “frittered away a people’s mandate” to become a “den of corruption”. Today’s need of the hour, in Singur and elsewhere, is jobs and industrialisation, something that he alleges is the least of priorities for the Trinamool Congress.
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I head out for Furfura Sharif in Hooghly district, 44 kilometres northwest of Calcutta, one early March morning. Hooghly is the potato bowl of Bengal. As the car speeds down the Durgapur Expressway, I notice freshly harvested potatoes in pink sacks dotting bare fields. I don’t have to ask for directions to the village centred around a 14th century mosque; it is all too well known.
Furfura Sharif, according to one of several theories, derives its name from the Farsi word
farre farrah, meaning glory and happiness.
As my car veers off the expressway, I spot huge flex banners welcoming pilgrims to the upcoming Esaal-e-Sawab, an occasion where people congregate to pray for the deceased. The three-day-long gathering held every spring attracts over a million Muslim men from eastern India and Bangladesh. At the centre