BJP has taken Bharati Ghosh under its wing after she fell out with Mamata & was slapped with criminal cases, which she describes as 'fake'. BJP says Ghosh is a 'fighter'.
Former governor Tathagata Roy, in exclusive chat with ThePrint, also claimed he has not been granted ‘active membership’, which he gave up when he became Tripura governor in 2015.
The TMC won Dinhata and Santipur by a record 1.64 lakh votes and by over 63,000 votes respectively. Dinhata had been vacated by Union Minister Nisith Pramanik.
In interview with ThePrint, Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar insists his party’s assembly poll defeat cannot be seen as a humiliating one, says his priority is 2024 polls.
Bhabanipur in South Kolkata, from where Mamata Banerjee will contest crucial bypoll, has a sizeable Gujarati & Marwari population, but TMC has trailed here only once in last 10 years.
Over the past year, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been working to distance herself from ‘pro-Muslim’ tag that the BJP had bestowed on her.
In 3 days, the TMC govt has received 30 lakh applications for the financial assistance scheme, Lakhir Bhandar, through which women are handed monthly amounts of Rs 500 & Rs 1,000.
The NHRC, quoting from a DGP report, has claimed that 1,934 complaints were lodged across police stations in the state, of which 1,168 FIRs were registered.
The Narendra Modi government is looking at ways to check states’ spending on handouts like free electricity and rations. The first step is to tighten the noose on state borrowings.
Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our headlines and from the top of our collective minds. Which is precisely the most important change for the better.