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KOLKATA: Bengal’s two main political forces, Trinamool Congress and BJP, are banking on the star appeal of young Bengali actors to win a few constituencies.
Most of their young candidates are from the world of films and TV serials.
The Left in contrast has chosen a different path.
After being criticised for years for being unable to unearth new faces, CPI(M) has fielded a number of youngsters, mostly present or former leaders of the party’s student wing.
Among the seven young faces of CPI(M), Aishe Ghosh and Dipsita Dhar are research scholars of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and known as firebrand student leaders.
At Nandigram, Site of Historic Land Movement, a Battle to See Who the Real Brahmin Is
With Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari have attempted repeatedly to cement their upper caste credo, the history of the movement that made Nandigram is long forgotten.
Suvendu Adhikary (left) and Mamata Banerjee, in Nandigram. Photos: PTI
Politics13/Mar/2021
Kolkata: On March 9, a day before submitting her nomination papers for the Nandigram assembly constituency, chief minister Mamata Banerjee addressed a workersâ gathering with local organisers.
While cautioning her partyâs workers to stay alert of BJPâs efforts to divide people in the name of religion, she said, âSome people will try to create divisions by talking of 70-30. Tell them we are 100. I, too, have a surname. But should I ponder as to why I, Mamata Banerjee, am a daughter of a Brahmin family…Brahmin, Scheduled Caste, Muslimâ¦these identities should not matter.â
Moumita Chaudhuri | | Published 14.03.21, 12:44 AM
You know it is poll season, when even the lover’s red, red serenade does not escape the hawk eye of political campaigners.
Tumpa Sona, a new musical release about romantic and class aspirations of a young man, had barely become the most-hummed tune in these parts this spring when, spotting a winner, Red cadres made it their anthem.
On February 28, supporters of the Left-Congress coalition pranced their way into Calcutta’s Brigade Parade Ground to the accompaniment of the “inspired” number. It went, “
Tumpa/ Toke niye Brigade jabo/Tumpa/Chain flag-e math sajabo/Tumpa/Athashe tulbo awaj/Tumpa/Modi Didi sob bhoge jak.” CPI(M) supporter Udit Sengupta, who is the creator of the new song, tells