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Sambit Pal

Can celebrities help the Trinamool defeat the BJP?

Mamata Banerjee has fallen back on a tried and tested strategy of fielding well-known faces as party candidates.

Sambit Pal
· Mar 09, 2021 · 07:30 am
In Bengal, catchy election slogans reflect changing political culture

The CPI(M) has released a parody of the popular Bengal song ‘Tumpa Sona’ while the BJP deployed a version of the Italian protest song ‘Bella Ciao’.

Sambit Pal
· Feb 23, 2021 · 09:00 am
As Congress debates leadership beyond Gandhis, recalling Narasimha Rao’s 1992 organisational polls

In 1992, as Congress president, he decided to hold organisational elections for the first time in two decades.

Sambit Pal
· Aug 25, 2020 · 07:30 am