MLA Tapasi Mondal’s party switch—which she blamed on the BJP’s ‘divisive agenda’—saw a spate of communally charged comments from Suvendu Adhikari. Mamata’s lieutenants hit back in kind.
Bengal’s Left parties landed 0 seats in 2019 & 2024 Lok Sabha polls as well as 2021 assembly elections. Rahul Gandhi-style yatras by young Communists may be their only hope in Bengal.
Suvendu Adhikari, leader of Oppn in Bengal assembly, denies allegation that he called IPS officer Jaspreet Singh 'Khalistani' when BJP delegation was stopped from entering Sandeskhali.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
Let us for once dispel any coyness regarding politicians having any spiritual scruples. Ms Banerjee was screaming about muslim infiltration across the swiss cheese border between India and Bangladesh when she was a BJP ally. Now she is ready to “tolerate their tantrums as long as they give milk” (votes). Mr Adhikari couldn’t have enough of iftaars when he needed Muslim votes but now cannot tolerate the sight of Muslim MLAs. It’s plain and cynical politics. Personal religiosity holds no water under the bridge of political expediency. The apogee of Bengalee civilization is long over. Bengal is doomed. Now it’s just a matter of who will get to perform the last rites.
Let us for once dispel any coyness regarding politicians having any spiritual scruples. Ms Banerjee was screaming about muslim infiltration across the swiss cheese border between India and Bangladesh when she was a BJP ally. Now she is ready to “tolerate their tantrums as long as they give milk” (votes). Mr Adhikari couldn’t have enough of iftaars when he needed Muslim votes but now cannot tolerate the sight of Muslim MLAs. It’s plain and cynical politics. Personal religiosity holds no water under the bridge of political expediency. The apogee of Bengalee civilization is long over. Bengal is doomed. Now it’s just a matter of who will get to perform the last rites.