Raj Chakraborty, Trinamool s Celebrity Face Who Wants To Be People s Person Raj Chakraborty, Trinamool s Celebrity Face Who Wants To Be People s Person Born in West Bengal s Halisahar, Mr Chakraborty is said to be one of the most commercially successful filmmakers in Tollywood.
Raj Chakraborty is contesting the Barrackpore constituency (File)
Kolkata:
The tradition of celebrities, including actors and cricketers, joining politics and contesting polls has a fair bit of history in Indian politics. And the case was no different just ahead of the elections to the West Bengal Assembly when director-actor-producer Raj Chakraborty joined the Trinamool Congress. Accompanying him on the stage were Kanchan Mullick, Sayoni Ghosh and cricketer Manoj Tewari - all of whom began their political journeys with the Mamata Banerjee-led party the same day.
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Mamata Banerjee all set for third term as West Bengal Chief Minister.
BENGAL ELECTION RESULT:Â With Mamata Banerjee powering the Trinamool Congress to a landslide victory in West Bengal overcoming 10 years of anti-incumbency, a full-throttle BJP campaign and a rebellious former lieutenant, she has become the natural leader to guide the Opposition s politics against the BJP in the coming days, some leaders said Sunday. The TMC s victory in the keenly, and at times acrimoniously, fought elections in the state comes barely a month after Banerjee wrote to Opposition leaders urging them to unite against the BJP.
The TMC s success in many ways is being seen as a victory of the non-saffron parties whose leaders were quick to congratulate her, even though she trailed her former lieutenant, but now BJP leader, Suvendu Adhikari, in Nandigram. Polling in the eastern state was held in eight phases between March 27 and April 29. The term of the outgoing Assembly will
Trinamool gains from stardom, glamour fails BJP
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Trinamool Congress. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Kolkata, May 2 : In a star-studded Assembly election battle in West Bengal, in which both the ruling Trinamool Congress and the principal opponent BJP fielded more than a dozen actors and actresses as candidates, the trends seem to show that while the Trinamool has successfully reaped the advantage of stardom, the saffron party has failed to capitalise on the glamour quotient.
Tollygunge was considered by many as one of the toughest seats for the Trinamool, where the BJP fielded singer-turned-politician MP Babul Supriyo against seasoned campaigner Arup Biswas.
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Manish Shukla, a lawyer, a social worker and a councilor of BJP was mercilessly shot by assailants riding on motor cycles. The incident took place near the Titagarh Police Station in the District of North 24 Parganas at 8.30 PM on Sunday, 4 October 2020.
The victim was talking with a few people and having tea outside his Scorpio car when masked gunmen opened several rounds of fire at him. The assailants, all armed with guns, parked their motorcycles in such a position so as to fire several rounds on Manish Shukla from a close range.
This was a pre-planned attack which was well coordinated and executed flawlessly with perfect timing. The assailantsâ complete lack of fear of law and order and of the police indicate connivance with the state machinery including higher echelons of the police.
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 22, 2021 05:22 AM
BJP supporters at a rally.
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The reiteration of nationalistic credentials by the electorate of Barrackpore can hurt the Trinamool very badly at the hustings.
This ancient river port which the British chose to set up as their first military station on Indian soil is looking forward to an end to the convulsions created by a recent mutiny.
Barrackpore has been a seat of mutinies, the first recorded one in 1824 (read this and this), followed by the one ignited by Mangal Pandey in 1857. The latest was the one senior Trinamool leader and former Barrackpore Lok Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi.