Bengal is seeing a Sushant Rajput-style moral panic over BJP leader’s arrest with cocaine

The media frenzy could end up hurting the opposition BJP in the upcoming Assembly elections.

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· Feb 25, 2021 · 06:30 am

Mamata Banerjee alleges Centre is targeting women in her family, calls BJP leaders ‘rioters’

At an election rally, the chief minister said Modi would go through ‘worse fate than former United States President Donald Trump’.

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· Feb 24, 2021 · 06:18 pm

In West Bengal’s Hooghly, PM Narendra Modi hits out at Mamata Banerjee over ‘cut money’

The prime minister accused the Trinamool Congress government of doing politics of ‘vote bank’ and ‘appeasement’ in the state.

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· Feb 22, 2021 · 07:34 pm

West Bengal: ‘Not even a bird will be allowed from across the border if BJP wins,’ says Amit Shah

The Union home minister said BJP will put an end to infiltration in the state if voted to power.

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· Feb 18, 2021 · 06:07 pm

‘Joy Bangla’ vs ‘Jai Shri Ram’: Will Mamata’s bid to counter Hindutva with Bengali identity work?

As the state heads into assembly elections this summer, pitched battles have already been fought over the issue of Bengaliness.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Feb 15, 2021 · 09:00 am

West Bengal: Left parties block roads, trains in 12-hour bandh against police action on activists

Several student and youth activists of Left parties were injured and arrested after clash with police during their march to state secretariat on Thursday.

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· Feb 12, 2021 · 01:51 pm

Mamata Banerjee calls BJP’s ‘rath yatra’ a ‘five-star bus’, hits out at party for photo-ops

BJP National President JP Nadda accused the chief minister of creating the insider-outsider divide in West Bengal.

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· Feb 09, 2021 · 04:16 pm

TMC’s misrule ‘more fearful’ than Left government, Bengal will show them ‘Ram card’: PM Modi

The prime minister said that the people had expected Mamata Banerjee to bring changes, but she paved way for ‘corrupt politicians to set up shop once more’.

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· Feb 07, 2021 · 06:31 pm

West Bengal: Diamond Harbour MLA Dipak Halder joins BJP a day after quitting TMC

Halder said he resigned because he was not allowed to work properly for the masses.

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· Feb 02, 2021 · 05:43 pm

West Bengal: ‘Mamata Banerjee will be left alone by the time elections are held,’ says Amit Shah

In yet another round of shifting camps, six Trinamool Congress leaders, including former minister Rajib Banerjee, joined the BJP on Saturday.

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· Jan 31, 2021 · 07:56 pm

West Bengal: Former minister Rajib Banerjee steps down as Trinamool Congress MLA, quits party

Banerjee’s resignation came on the day Home Minister Amit Shah is visiting the state.

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· Jan 29, 2021 · 04:44 pm

BJP should be renamed ‘Bharat Jalao Party’: Mamata Banerjee after row over ‘Jai Shri Ram’ chants

The chief minister accused BJP of insulting Subhash Chandra Bose, by chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at his birth anniversary event.

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· Jan 25, 2021 · 05:31 pm