In the letter to President Kovind, the Bengal CM cited the preliminary probe and said it does not appear to be a political case as being projected by the BJP.
BJP, which launched its poll campaign with an Amit Shah virtual rally on 9 June, has divided Bengal into 5 zones, with one cabinet minister addressing a rally for each zone.
While the cut-money allegations have put Mamata govt on the backfoot, political experts say extortion has been an intricate part of Bengal’s politics for the past four decades.
Chandra Kumar Bose says Modi a tall leader but BJP has become a machine to win polls, topple govts. Bengal BJP says he was dropped with 2021 elections in mind.
For 12 days, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee held no press conference. When she finally did Tuesday, after a heated discussion with PM Modi, she resorted to playing up 'Bangla' refrain.
The circular asked all district policemen to play Bengal CM’s awareness song on coronavirus in residential areas to mark Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday Friday.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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