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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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No manpower, little resources — Left’s Bhabanipur campaign reflects state of party in Bengal

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BJP workers regaining confidence, ready to fight ‘Taliban Trinamool’, new Bengal chief says

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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. 

Mamata Banerjee calls BJP as ‘jumla party’, claims will defeat it across India

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Addressing a public meeting, Banerjee, criticised Centre for not allowing her to attend global peace meet in Rome and claimed that such attempts by BJP will not succeed in stopping her.

Trinamool going national, vote for Mamata in Bhabanipur for change in Delhi: Nephew Abhishek

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Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee made the remarks at a public meeting in Bhabanipur, where CM Mamata is seeking election in a bypoll on 30 September.

As Modi govt ministers lead BJP campaign on Mamata’s turf Bhabanipur, CPM wages ‘lonely’ battle

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Mamata Banerjee, who represented Bhabanipur in 2011 and 2016, is up against BJP's Priyanka Tibrewal and the CPI(M)'s Shrijeeb Biswas in the 30 September bypoll.

BJP’s present politics different from what Syama Prasad espoused, Jana Sangh founder’s nephew says

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In an interview with ThePrint, Chittatosh Mookerjee says much was expected of the BJP in Bengal but they have not fulfilled expectations.

‘Bad people management, factionalism’ — why Dilip Ghosh lost post of Bengal BJP head

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While BJP leaders say Dilip Ghosh was instrumental in party’s 2019 outing in Bengal, his ‘inability’ to work with party members is seen as a factor in exodus it’s grappling with.

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Tenure of Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, who assumed chair in 2018, has been marked by a series of controversies. Faculty say they've raised matter with Modi govt.
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