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Topic: West Bengal

West Bengal is an Indian state in the eastern part of the country, and the only one in India with an incumbent woman Chief Minister — Mamata Banerjee.


The region, which was the political heart of the Bengal Presidency during British Rule, was divided into East and West Bengal in 1947. Bengal was a hotbed of the Indian Independence movement and has remained one of the country’s great artistic and intellectual centres, being home to Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee as well as freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray.


Geographically, the state is happily situated with the Himalayas in the north and the Sundarbans in the south. It shares a roughly 2,200-sqkm border with Bangladesh (East Bengal at the time of Partition).


For the first 30 years, the Congress ruled Bengal, but made way for Left domination for the next 34 years. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress — a breakaway from the Congress — came to power.

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BJP has called Gorkhaland Territorial Administration an "unconstitutional body", while TMC ally GJM has accused West Bengal government of "controlling" what was meant to be an "autonomous body".

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Speaking at Purulia meeting Monday, CM Mamata Banerjee ordered district magistrate to ensure that no government officials in his jurisdiction seek bribes to complete their work.

Mamata govt aims to replace governor with CM as chancellor of state universities, will bring law

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Central govt decries move, says looking into University Grants Commission guidelines before initiating any action against the West Bengal cabinet's decision. 

Mukul Roy, Babul Supriyo, now Arjun Singh: Why BJP is losing the plot in Mamata’s Bengal

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BJP’s Bengal unit has been in disarray since last year’s Assembly polls, with several leaders jumping ship to TMC. Leaders blame infighting and organisational failures.

2023 panchayat poll AAP’s first port of call in fresh Bengal push, ground work begins

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In the coming months, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party plans to hold 100 programmes across Bengal’s 23 districts to 'pinpoint area-wise issues' and forge connect with the people.

Check if older women have become prostitutes due to Covid, Supreme Court directs Bengal

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Amicus Curiae tells top court the Bengal government was aware of this practice but had not taken any precautionary measures.

Tagore had the answer to rural poverty, education. The blueprint’s still in Santiniketan

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To introduce Tagore's ideas on these issues, one needs to translate his works into other Indian languages. But very little progress has been made in 80 years.

Don’t bow down to violence, fight must be political — what Shah told Bengal BJP during 2-day visit

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At a closed-door meeting during his first visit to the state since the 2021 defeat, the Union home minister told the unit that BJP will form govt in Bengal in next state polls.

‘Trinamool completes a year in power and murders start,’ says Amit Shah on BJP leader’s death

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Shah demanded a CBI probe into the murder of youth wing leader Arjun Chowrasia who was found hanging in an abandoned building near his home in north Kolkata Friday morning.
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