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West Bengal

Doctors demand respect while on VVIP duty

After the announcement of dates for the Lok Sabha (Assembly by-election at a few), government doctors in West Bengal await a harrowing time for two months in the scorching summer as many of them are on duty during VVIP political leaders’ election rallies across districts.

Mamata: BJP responsible for thousands losing their jobs

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee ripped into the BJP on Tuesday over the Calcutta High Court’s judgment on Monday that cancelled the appointment of 25,753 teaching and non-teaching staff in the state’s schools in 2016

Second fiddle

These are states where till a decade ago the BJP was a marginal force and the Congress was either in power or the main Opposition. The BJP has grown its footprint in these states in varying degrees, the regional forces are still around and fighting hard.

Owaisi and UP

It would perhaps be no exaggeration to state that more than Bihar or Bengal, Asaduddin Owaisi's real target is Uttar Pradesh, India's largest and politically most important state, which is to go to the polls in March next year

Congress v Congress

What is not, however, is the issues on which Congress dissidents have been speaking out. At the heart of the matter, to paraphrase Mr Sharma’s tweet which led to the brouhaha, is the party’s understanding of “Gandhian and Nehruvian secularism” and the electoral strategy which it has been following to attract the support of various communities to its banner at the hustings.