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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicBJP West Bengal

Topic: BJP West Bengal

BJP is othering Bengalis. Its Hindi imperialism won’t work

The BJP’s agenda is clear. After successive defeats in the 2021 and 2024 elections, the party is attempting to pigeonhole Bengal as a place of Rohingya, Bangladeshis, and Muslims.

BJP calls for global condemnation after Tagore’s ancestral home vandalised in Bangladesh

Party spokesperson Sambit Patra cited media reports to claim that Jamaat-e-Islami & Hefazat-e-Islam were behind the attack.

BJP leader protests, demands central forces in Bengal after violent clashes near Kolkata

LoP & BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari alleged that TMC failed to protect Hindus from the violence in Rabindranagar & Maheshtala on Wednesday.

Kolkata rape-murder: Mamata says BJP trying to defame Bengal over 12-hour bandh call

The Bengal CM defended police action on the BJP-supported march to the state secretariat Tuesday, adding the rapist would be rightfully punished.

BJP’s Priyangu Pandey accuses TMC workers, Kolkata police of ‘throwing bombs, firing’ on his vehicle

Pandey claims his vehicle was attacked by a mob, describing the incident as a 'joint conspiracy' to murder him. Meanwhile, the TMC has accused the BJP of trying to create anarchy in Bengal.

With loss of assembly bypolls to TMC, BJP’s electoral fortunes in Bengal continue to dwindle

TMC wrested Raiganj, Bagda and Ranaghat Dakshin seats from BJP, while retaining Maniktala in assembly bypolls held on 10 July. Mamata Banerjee hailed it as ‘victory of the people’.

Changed seat, short campaign & ‘anti-BJP’ mood — ex-MP Dilip Ghosh lists reasons for Medinipur loss

Ex-Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh was fielded from Bardhaman-Durgapur instead of his seat Medinipur and lost Lok Sabha polls to TMC's Kirti Azad. This was Ghosh’s first poll defeat.

If TMC slips by even one seat in 2024, Mamata Banerjee’s 2026 shot becomes that much harder

BJP has successfully executed 'Operation Lotus' in Goa, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. Mamata Banerjee must repair internal friction and fight harder to prevent this fate for TMC.

Prominent Hindu speaker who chose monk life at 17 — Kartik Maharaj in eye of BJP-TMC political storm

While addressing a rally, CM Mamata Banerjee had made remarks against Hindu organisations, including Kartik Maharaj's Bharat Sevashram Sangha, sparking political row in West Bengal.

Sandeshkhali ‘Agnikanya’ Rekha Patra is BJP’s Basirhat trump card — ‘for a housewife, politics is easy’

Rekha Patra was at the frontlines of the women’s protest against TMC’s Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali, which comes under the Muslim-dominated Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency.

On Camera

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.