Saira Shah Halim is CPI(M) candidate in Ballygunge bypoll, to be held on 12 April. She is pitted against TMC’s Babul Supriyo, who is facing flak for previous actions as BJP MP.
TMC is fielding ‘Bihari babu’ Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol LS seat, which it has never won. The party is aiming for non-Bengali votes and a more diverse image, TMC leaders say.
Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh met national president JP Nadda Monday and complained about how Babul Supriyo and Saumitra Khan made ‘objectionable’ remarks on social media.
In interview with ThePrint, Union Minister Babul Supriyo accuses Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of positioning herself as Bengal’s daughter for ‘cheap publicity’.
BJP list includes Mamata Banerjee’s former lieutenant in Singur anti-land acquisition movement, plus four MPs, three Trinamool turncoats and economist Ashok Lahiri.
According to BJP leaders in West Bengal, five factors are working against the Trinamool Congress. When you travel across the state, these factors do surface in one form or another.
Infosys, the second-largest outsourcer, forecast annual sales growth below analysts’ estimates Thursday, following a profit miss at smaller rival HCL Technologies two days earlier.
Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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