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  • TMC delegation to fulfill EC tomorrow, urge it to carry by-elections in 6 seats

    A Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation will meet Election Commission (EC) officers in New Delhi on Thursday demanding holding of the bypolls in six vacant Assembly seats in West Bengal on the earliest.
    “We will meet the EC officials on Thursday and request them to hold the bypolls soon. We will request that a week for campaigning will be enough for the bypolls. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has already said that she will focus on holding the civic polls in the state after the bypolls are over. We will have nothing to say if the EC does not hold the bypolls on time, but will continue with our demand,” TMC MP Sougata Roy mentioned right here on Tuesday.
    Mamata Banerjee, who misplaced the Assembly election from Nandigram, should get elected within the subsequent six months to proceed as chief minister. In that case, the bypolls have to be carried out by November 5. After the election outcomes, Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, the TMC MLA from Bhabanipur constituency, vacated the seat to permit Banerjee to contest from there. Banerjee had gained from Bhabanipur twice since 2011.
    Dinhata and Santipur Assembly seats fell vacant after BJP leaders Nisith Pramanik and Jagannath Sarkar resigned as MLAs to retain the Lok Sabha membership.
    In the Assembly elections, polling couldn’t be held in Samserganj and Jangipur seats in Murshidabad district because of the demise of the candidates. Khardah seat in North 24 Parganas district felt vacant after TMC candidate Kajal Sinha died of Covid-19 earlier than the outcomes have been introduced. Sinha gained the election posthumously.
    Meanwhile, state BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya mentioned that his social gathering was not towards the holding of Assembly bypolls. “We are not against holding the bypolls but why is the TMC not holding the civic polls in the state that are due for the last two years. They want bypolls on time but we want the election to the civic bodies be held as early as possible,” the BJP spokesperson mentioned.
     

  • ‘Completely false and provocative’: Mamata will get EC discover for her remarks on ‘Central forces’

    Calling her statements towards the Central Paramilitary Forces “completely false and provocative,” the Election Commission on Friday issued a discover to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and requested her to clarify her stand on the identical earlier than 11 am Saturday.
    If Banerjee fails to clarify herself, an motion could be taken towards her for violating Model Code of Conduct in addition to sections 186, 189, 505 of the IPC, the discover mentioned.
    In a strongly worded discover, the ballot physique deemed the statements made by the TMC supremo on May 28 and April 7 as an try and “berate and vilify Central Paramilitary Forces during the electoral process.” This, it provides, was “causing extreme demoralisation amongst the ranks and file of these forces.”

    In an election rally yesterday, Mamata Banerjee claimed that central forces on ballot responsibility in West Bengal had been working beneath the directions of the central authorities. Banerjee additionally accused the forces of committing atrocities on villagers and harassing girls.
    Addressing a public assembly Alipurduar district, the TMC boss additionally accused the Election Commission of turning a blind eye to the “excesses” of the CRPF, CISF, BSF and the ITBP.

    This is EC’s second discover to Mamata Banerjee throughout the meeting polls within the state. On April 7, Banerjee was served a discover for violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) together with her attraction to minority voters to not divide their votes between totally different political events.

  • Nadda cancels 2 Bengal rallies, rushes to Delhi for ‘urgent meet’

    The BJP on Tuesday cancelled each rallies of occasion president J P Nadda in Hooghly district after he needed to rush again to New Delhi for an “urgent meeting”.
    The BJP occasion chief’s assembly at Sreerampur within the morning was cancelled as a consequence of unknown causes. Nadda, nevertheless, participated in a roadshow within the afternoon to canvass for Union minister Babul Supriyo and actress Payal Sarkar, who’re contesting from Tollygunge and Behala Purba seats respectively.
    His rally later within the night at Chunchura in Hooghly district was additionally cancelled. The state BJP stated his rallies had been cancelled as he needed to rush again to Delhi to attend an “urgent meeting”, with out giving any particulars.
    The TMC, nevertheless, stated Nadda didn’t attend rallies as attendance was skinny.

  • Shiv Sena to not contest Bengal polls, however will assist Mamata

    Image Source : PTI Shiv Sena will not contest West Bengal elections.
    The Shiv Sena has determined to opt-out of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, however the celebration has determined to ‘wholeheartedly’ assist All India Trinamool Congress chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a high official stated on Thursday.

    Sena MP and Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut stated that for the reason that West Bengal polls are turning out to be “Didi vs All”, the Shiv Sena has determined to not contest the elections, however will stand in solidarity together with her.

    “Looking at the present scenario, it appears like a ‘Didi vs All’ fight. All M’s – Money, Muscle and Media – are being used against Mamata Didi. We wish her a ‘roaring success’, because we believe she is the real ‘Bengal Tigress’!” stated Raut.

    He stated that the choice was taken after discussions with Shiv Sena President and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.

    However, MVA sources stated the transfer may have been prompted to make sure that there is no such thing as a division of votes within the West Bengal polls that would injury Trinamool’s prospects vis-a-vis the BJP because the Sena was tentatively planning to contest round 60 seats.

    As a part of its technique to accumulate an all-India presence, in January, the Sena had introduced plans to sound the ballot bugle in West Bengal the place it had contested the 2016 Assembly and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, however notched nil when it comes to seats.

    Earlier, the Sena — ruling Maharashtra in alliance with Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress — has contested numerous elections in numerous states together with Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir and Goa apart from West Bengal.

    The saffron celebration has justified its ventures in different states on grounds that the Bharatiya Janata Party on the Centre has been making an attempt to destabilize or dethrone Constitutionally-elected governments in all Opposition-ruled states, together with Maharashtra and West Bengal.

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    Incidentally, ruling ally NCP President Sharad Pawar has already stated he would go to Kolkata to increase assist to Mamata Banerjee — as a part of plans to construct up a ‘grand alliance’ of nationwide and state opposition events — earlier than the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    Similarly, political sources additionally don’t rule out the potential for a repeat of Maharashtra’s MVA experiment — Sena-NCP-Congress with differing ideologies becoming a member of palms — in West Bengal if the japanese state brews up a fractured mandate within the elections, the outcomes of that are anticipated in early-May.

    “The unthinkable happened in Maharashtra and it is working smoothly. Anything is possible… even in WB… The MVA is cited as a national example to make states strong,” a senior state chief stated guardedly, on the percentages with three arch-rivals in West Bengal — Congress, Left Front and Trinamool Congress — hugging one another post-polls to maintain the BJP at bay.

    On its half, the BJP is in a hyper-aggressive temper to seize West Bengal and is leaving no stone unturned to beat what was a Communist fortress for almost three many years earlier than Mamata planted the Trinamool flag there 10 years in the past.

    The relations between the Thackeray household and Mamata Banerjee, a former Union Minister, return a number of many years.

    In 2017, Uddhav, 60 and Mamata, 66, had a cordial assembly in Mumbai when the latter had come to ask Indian company honchos for the West Bengal Global Investment Summit-2018 held in Kolkata.

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  • EXCLUSIVE | TMC has turn into an organization with Mamata as chairman, Abhishek as MD: Suvendu Adhikari

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Suvendu Adhikari, who was as soon as thought-about to be a detailed aide of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, has described his former get together — Trinamool Congress (TMC) — as a ‘non-public restricted firm’. In an unique dialog with India TV, Adhikari minced no phrases to slam Mamata Banerjee whereas accusing her of favouring nephew Abhishek Banerjee and several other different senior Trinamool leaders.

    Adhikari criticised Mamata saying when a political get together turns into a ‘firm’ and left to inexperienced individuals like Abhishek, one has to half methods. He questioned TMC’s intention to serve the individuals of Bengal.

    Adhikari lauded the BJP saying it is going to kind the subsequent authorities in Bengal and fulfill the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’.  He stated the saffron get together believes in ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas’ and can deliver ‘Ram Rajya’ (good governance) in Bengal. 

    Suvendu Adhikari Interview | Highlights

    The individuals of Bengal are with the BJP. TMC might attempt to break the connection, however it will not succeed.
    TMC, a politicial get together has now become a ‘non-public restricted firm. TMC’s chairman is Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee is the managing director. And I-PAC (Prashant Kishor) is ‘thekedar’ (contractor) of TMC firm.
    I used to be eliminated because the president of youth brigade of TMC in 2014 and he (Abhishek) was given the cost. Everything was performed as per a plan. Even Somen Mitra, a senior chief, was faraway from his parliamentary seat.
    Picture abhi baaki hai, ye to trailer chal rha hai. BJP will get clear majority.
    I’m feeling excellent, I’m having fun with. Didi has been abusing me each day. This reveals that I’ve disturbed TMC’s vote share already.
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    Amit Shah has already stated that the BJP will win 200 seats in Bengal, and it’ll occur.
    Mamata Didi is busy in appeasing the minority. However, it will not work. Issues like electrical energy, street, training proceed to be uncared for. Nothing has been performed for the downtrodden and poor individuals.
    Ram does not belong to at least one specific group or any get together. Ram Rajya and Sushasan (good governance) is our precedence.
    There is not any place for violence in politics. This ought to finish. Roots of political violence should be pulled out and solely BJP can do it.
    BJP is the one get together that may fulfill the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’. People will reject TMC and elect BJP this time.
    Suvendu Adhikari had resigned from TMC and joined the BJP within the presence of Union Home Home Minister Amit Shah throughout a rally in Midnapore on December 19, 2020.
    Adhikari was the face of the Nandigram motion that propelled Mamata Banerjee to energy in Bengal in 2011. Adhikari’s father Sisir Adhikari and brother Dibyendu are sitting TMC MPs from Tamluk and Kanthi Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.
    The Adhikari household is taken into account to be an influencial within the Junglemahal area having over 40 meeting segments. The household additionally has a following is a few minority-dominated Murshidabad district.
    (With inputs from Pawan Nara)

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