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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

Stuttering start

It is vital for the above backdrop to be kept in mind when trying to assess the impact of the stuttering start of the ‘third player’ in the March- April eight-phase Assembly poll in West Bengal – the alliance between the Left Front, Congress, and Indian Secular Front led by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui. Siddiqui, a bit player at the state-level and a non-entity nationally, publicly undermined the alliance at its first big campaign rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday when he failed to even mention the Congress.