How West Bengal Halted the BJPâs Chariot
This left-liberal group decided to swing in Mamata Banerjee s favour this time and its numbers surely helped supersede the negative anti-incumbency votes.
West Bengal BJP office wears a deserted look after partys defeat to TMC in state assembly polls, in Kolkata, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Photo: PTI
Politics5 hours ago
The election results in West Bengal are still coming in, and âleadsâ are being replaced by âwinsâ or otherwise. Even so, one is perhaps entitled to stick out oneâs neck to try to make sense out the most spectacular loss that the BJP has been handed in seven years.
Highlights My good luck that I survived : Mamata Banerjee on her injury
Some thought I wouldn t be able to step out with a broken leg, she said
Kolkata:
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who hit the campaign trail yesterday in a wheelchair, made the 300-odd km journey to Purulia today, where she declared, People s pain is greater than my pain . Referring to her injury, sustained last week in Nandigram, she said, Some thought I wouldn t be able to step out with this broken leg .
At her rally in Kolkata yesterday, Ms Banerjee had made the same point.
My pain is not greater than the suffering of people as democracy is being trampled through dictatorship, she had said. I will continue to roam around Bengal on this wheelchair. If I go on bed rest, who will reach out to the people of Bengal? the Chief Minister had said.
Can Mamata win Bengal with Maa kitchen like Jayalalithaa won Tamil Nadu with Amma canteen?
Can Mamata win Bengal with Maa kitchen like Jayalalithaa won Tamil Nadu with Amma canteen?
Analysts credited the launch of Amma canteen ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha polls for AIADMK winning 37 of 39 parliamentary seats, and Jayalalithaa’s comeback victory in the 2016 Tamil Nadu Assembly election. Will Maa canteen work the same magic for Mamata Banerjee in Bengal polls?
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UPDATED: February 17, 2021 01:19 IST
People lining up to get food at Rs 5 at Mamata Banerjee s Maa canteen kiosk in Kolkata | India Today image
In 2016, Jayalalithaa broke the cycle of power change in Tamil Nadu by becoming the first chief minister to win an Assembly election in the late 1980s.
Kolkata:
On the lines of Karnataka s Indira Canteen and Tamil Nadu s Amma Canteen, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has launched Maa Kitchens in poll-bound West Bengal, which will provide nutritious food at a highly subsidised price. After the BJP dismissed the scheme - under which a plate full of rice, cooked vegetables, dal and an egg will be offered at just Rs 5 - as an election stunt, the ruling Trinamool Congress pointed out that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently launched several infrastructure projects for the state, just months ahead of the assembly elections.
At the launch event at the state secretariat - Nabanna, Ms Banerjee said, This is the Maa Kitchen. We are proud of our
Prashant Kishor: The X-Factor in Bengal Politics Holding Sway Over TMC Poll Campaign
In the coming assembly elections, the battle for Bengal may be between Modi and Mamata, but is also between Amit Shah and Prashant Kishor.
Prashant Kishor. Image: Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters
Politics14/Feb/2021
Kolkata: On Friday, after Trinamool Congress (TMC) veteran Dinesh Trivedi announced his resignation from the Rajya Sabha in a surprise move, he echoed what a number of TMC defectors have said before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party in recent months â that the party was no longer under Mamata Banerjeeâs control and that it had been taken over by a corporate agency.