With TMC divided into factions, numbers suggest that the three BJP candidates are almost certain to win the by-elections.
The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.
In West Bengal, the BJP is set to secure victory in all three Rajya Sabha seats as Trinamool Congress may not be in the race due to internal rebellion
Modi said that institutions established during Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s period laid the foundation for the country’s economic and industrial growth.
The SIT investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl in Baruipur has arrested a second accused after overnight raids and detained three others as police await the autopsy report.
More than 1.5 lakh people will be called for hearings over the next one week in connection with logical discrepancies, identified during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in West Burdwan district, said District Magistrate (DM) and District Electoral Officer (DEO) S Ponnamballam on Tuesday.
BJP national president Nitin Nabin, while seeking to woo Bengali voters with an eye on the upcoming Assembly elections, recalled eminent Bengali personalities ranging from Raja Rammohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar to Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Uttam Kumar and Satyajit Ray, representing laurels from diverse fields.
In his maiden visit to West Bengal as the new national president of the BJP, Nitin Nabin has significantly selected Asansol and Durgapur, two cities once considered the bastion of the saffron brigade, as is first stop.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to be in New Delhi next week to create a consensus among the opposition parties against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in several states, including her own.
In poll-bound West Bengal, the controversy over the newly-launched Vande Bharat Sleeper Express serving “vegetarian only” meals fails to die even after Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw himself has been quoted as saying that this is just a temporary arrangement.
