Abbas Siddiqui’s Indian Secular Front Stitches Alliance with Congress-Left Ditching Owaisi in Bengal Polls
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In a significant political development ahead of the crucial Assembly polls in West Bengal, the alliance between Asaduddin Owaisi, the chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), and the newly-formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) of Abbas Siddiqui, is likely to run in to a rough weather with the new political equation emerging between ISF and the Congress-Left Front.
Owaisi saw a huge political opportunity in the State and since 2011, his party has slowly started working in the bordering areas of the State where the Muslim population is high. After winning the Kishanganj seat in Bihar for the first time, Owaisi paid more attention towards West Bengal. Though he is yet to launch AIMIM officially in the State, Owaisi has already engaged local youths to spread its ideology and party’s stand towards the Muslims, mainly in Kolkata, North Dinajpur, M
Will Mamata Banerjee’s Special Focus on North Bengal and Jangalmahal Work This Time?
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Amid BJP’s huge surge in North Bengal and in the Jangalmahal region, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has intensified her campaign in these parts of West Bengal to dampen BJP’s strategy to form the next government in the State.
Both North Bengal and the Jangalmahal region consist of 98 Assembly seats out of the total 294 Assembly seats in the State and these regions turned out to be a nightmare for the ruling TMC as they performed miserably in the last Lok Sabha elections. Therefore, to keep her tally up, Mamata is paying more attention in this part of the State.
»BJP s Poaching Politics Intensifies in Run up to Polls, Alleges Mamata; Says Party Dialed Top TMC Leaders
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BJP s Poaching Politics Intensifies in Run up to Polls, Alleges Mamata; Says Party Dialed Top TMC Leaders
File photo of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
Banerjee s reaction on ‘BJP’s poach politics’ came amid growing resentment in the TMC with several senior leaders, ministers and MLAs openly speaking up against the party leadership.
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Coming down heavily on BJP for doing dirty poaching politics , West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday dropped a bombshell by claiming that the saffron brigade has recently contacted TMC s state president and requested him to join them.