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Topic: BJP West Bengal

Once Mamata’s top aide, Suvendu Adhikari quits as TMC MLA, likely to join BJP in 2 days

Suvendu Adhikari had quit as a state cabinet minister two weeks ago, and is likely to join the BJP in Delhi or in West Midnapore district on 19 December. 

BJP sends Mamata Banerjee a message with Nadda launching Bengal poll campaign on her turf

BJP president J.P. Nadda will visit one slum area in Bhabanipur today to 'show the lack of development' there and 'expose the fault lines in the chief minister’s development narrative'.

Cow cabinet meeting ‘rush’, & why ‘tau’ is unhappy about International Men’s Day

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Focus on women voters — how BJP plans to dent Mamata’s support in West Bengal

BJP general secretary BL Santosh and other leaders held meetings with Bengal unit to get campaign for 2021 polls rolling. Booth-level activities & women voters key focus points.

Mamata’s ‘super cabinet’ — how 4 retired officers are running the state with CM’s trust

While civil service veterans say the arrangement is demoralising for serving officers & the opposition calls it politicisation of governance, TMC govt insists it is doing nothing wrong.     

The Bengal minister, once key to Mamata’s politics, who is now ‘revolting’ against her

Transport Minister Subhendu Adhikari was behind Mamata’s Nandigram agitation but has not attended a cabinet or administrative meeting for the past 3-4 months.

Ghosh vs Khan in Bengal BJP is a fight for control between old guard & Trinamool defectors

Feud was out in the open on 23 October when state president Dilip Ghosh dissolved all district committees of the Yuva Morcha, headed by Saumitra Khan, once with the TMC.

BJP to compile list of IAS & IPS officers ‘close to Mamata govt’, claims bias in Bengal

BJP also plans to come up with a list of ‘goons in every block and district that will be handed over to home ministry’, says action necessary for free and fair elections next year.

18 months, 5 reminders — CBI yet to get Speaker nod to prosecute Trinamool MPs in Narada scam

CBI took over case in 2017 and sought permission in April 2019 from Lok Sabha Speaker to prosecute three MPs — Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sougata Roy and Prasun Banerjee — and former MP Subhendu Adhikari.

Governor takes on Mamata govt over Sikh man’s turban row, calls it ‘blatant rights violation’

Balwinder Singh was dragged away from a BJP rally in Kolkata when his turban came off. Police claim that he was carrying a weapon and have booked him under the Arms Act.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

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.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

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.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

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.