The BJP is making sure its West Bengal 2021 campaign is controlled from Delhi

The party’s state unit is being given a relatively minor role and will depend on the high command.

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· Oct 15, 2020 · 09:15 am

West Bengal elections: Kailash Vijayvargiya says BJP will not project a chief ministerial face

The BJP leader said the party’s goal was simply to win 220 to 230 seats in the 294-member Assembly.

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· Aug 24, 2020 · 03:44 pm

Visva Bharati vice-chancellor’s security cover withdrawn over allegations of misuse

A district official said the personal security officials were changed as they had been assigned there for a long time.

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· Aug 21, 2020 · 07:06 pm

West Bengal governor attacks Mamata Banerjee for not attending I-Day function at Raj Bhavan

Jagdeep Dhankhar tweeted that the episode was another example of Banerjee ‘distancing’ herself from the Constitution, and setting a ‘bad precedent’.

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· Aug 16, 2020 · 03:12 pm

In West Bengal, the ‘apolitical’ governor is now the main political opposition

But it is in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s interests to play along.

Shoaib Daniyal

· May 02, 2020 · 09:00 am

West Bengal: Fresh clashes between TMC and BJP, seven houses burnt in Jalpaiguri

The BJP unit in the state blamed Trinamool Congress activists for the attack – a charge the ruling party has promptly rejected.

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· Feb 24, 2020 · 05:37 pm

West Bengal governor calls all-party meeting to discuss two bills pending before him

However, CPI(M) and Congress leaders said they will not be able to attend the meeting.

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· Jan 13, 2020 · 08:32 pm

West Bengal governor locked out of Assembly, calls it shameful

Jagdeep Dhankar’s remarks came amid a two-day adjournment of the House after bills slated to be tabled in the Assembly were still awaiting his approval.

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· Dec 05, 2019 · 04:07 pm

Trinamool’s bye-election sweep is a no-confidence motion on BJP’s NRC plans in Bengal

The Trinamool has been successful in convincing the state electorate that the citizen’s register will harm Bengalis, as it did in Assam.

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· Nov 28, 2019 · 08:33 pm

West Bengal will try to regularise all refugee colonies, says Mamata Banerjee

The chief minister said that the Trinamool Congress government will also give land rights to the displaced people.

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· Nov 25, 2019 · 08:22 pm

West Bengal government is applying pressure on most university vice-chancellors, claims governor

Jagdeep Dhankhar’s remarks came a day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused him of acting as the BJP’s mouthpiece.

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· Nov 16, 2019 · 05:40 pm

BJP delegation seeks president’s intervention in West Bengal, tells him about Murshidabad murders

Mukul Roy, who was part of the team that met Ram Nath Kovind, claimed that more than 89 people with links to the BJP had been killed since last year.

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· Oct 15, 2019 · 10:05 pm