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.
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Why Yashwant Sinha s Decision to Join the TMC Is Politically Significant
Though the former BJP leader is unlikely to make a difference electorally in West Bengal, his presence will give a further fillip to the notion that Mamata Banerjee is the fulcrum of the opposition at the national level.
Yashwant Sinha joins the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on March 13, 2021. Photo: PTI
Politics14/Mar/2021
New Delhi: Yashwant Sinhaâs decision to join the Trinamool Congress (TMC) ahead of the tightly-contested assembly polls in West Bengal may not be electorally crucial but is politically significant for various reasons.
Over the past few years, the former BJP Union minister has emerged as one of the most bitter critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modiâs leadership and the dominance of his personality cult in the saffron party. Sinha’s interventions have particularly been critical in the areas of foreign policy and political economy. In recent times, he has rallied behind the farmers