Bengal: Post-Poll Intimidation Leads to Hundreds of BJP Workers Still Living Away From Home
While BJP s own house is in disarray in Bengal, its grassroots-level workers have been forced to live in party offices or relatives houses face with alleged TMC violence.
The house of BJP worker Ramananda Koyal, at Diamond Harbour block 2. Koyal has alleged his house was ransacked by TMC workers. Photo: By arrangement.
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Kolkata: Giridhari Bagdi, the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for Labpur âAâ mandal committee in Birbhum district, has been living in hiding, in an undisclosed location outside Birbhum, since May 2, when the results of the assembly elections were announced.
The post-poll violence in Bengal, the Covid situation in the country and preparations for a possible third wave of the virus are high on the agenda of an internal meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the BJP.
In the clash of the titans where the TMC was in a straight fight with the BJP in most constituencies, the once all-powerful Left seems to have been squeezed into oblivion.
Mamata Banerjee Sworn-In as Bengal CM for Third Time
Banerjee took the oath in Bengali language.
TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee takes oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time consecutively during her Swearing-in-Ceremony, at Governor House in Kolkata, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was Wednesday sworn-in as the chief minister of West Bengal for the third consecutive term after a massive win in the state assembly elections.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar administered her the oath of office and secrecy at a low-key ceremony at Raj Bhawan held amid the raging COVID pandemic.
âCongratulations, Didiâ: How the TMCâs Victory in West Bengal had J&K Jubilant
Still smarting from the sting of the events of 2019, many Kashmiris are happy whenever the BJP suffers a defeat, wherever that defeat might be.
Major Nagar area wears a deserted look during 84-hour lockdown imposed in Jammu and Kashmir by administration in a bid to tackle the surge in COVID-19 cases, in Srinagar, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Srinagar: On Sunday, May 2, when the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress was declared to have won the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, cheers were raised more than 2,000 km away by the people of Jammu and Kashmir.