Bengal Election 2021: Rahul Sinha is contesting from Habra constituency.
Kolkata:
BJP leader Rahul Sinha was banned today from campaigning for 48 hours in Bengal over his provocative statements but another BJP leader, Suvendu Adhikari, was spared for his communal comments.
The Trinamool Congress had asked for action against Rahul Sinha and the BJP s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh for what it called inflammatory remarks on the Cooch Behar firing.
The Trinamool had alleged that BJP leaders were instigating violence by warning of more incidents like the one on Saturday, in which four people were killed in Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar when central forces opened fire after a mob attacked a polling booth.
Callous and irresponsible
Religious congregations, poll rallies blithely ignore raging Covid
That a collective sense of fear and sorrow in the face of the steepest surge of Covid-19 pandemic should drive people towards overt religiosity is perhaps understandable. What is unforgivable is those in authority actively channelling these palpable fears into absolutely irresponsible public conduct.
This week, the Uttarakhand government did not just allow as many as 31 lakh devotees, it even arranged for helicopters to shower flower petals as religious contingents marched on the streets of Haridwar, most of them without masks. Haridwar had already registered 373 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday even before the event. Many among the devotees and their leaders, the chief priest of the biggest collective Niranjani Akhara, Mahant Narendra Giri, was diagnosed Covid positive. But that did not deter his son, Anand Giri, from leading the procession for the holy dip. State Chief Minister Tirath
Ranaghat (WB), April 12
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders, said on Monday that those threatening of more Cooch Behar-like killings should be banned
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will "protest the undemocratic and unconstitutional decision of the Election Commission" - to ban her from campaigning for 24 hours - at noon tomorrow
Why Bengal s Elections Are Far More Complex than TMC s Corruption and BJP s Communal Drive
There is, in reality, a triangular contest, in which a host of social and political factors are competing for influence.
The Bengal elections have become a triangular contest among TMC, BJP, and CPI (M)-led alliance. Illustration: The Wire/Facebook.
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The Bengal elections have brought the social and political churning under way in that state to the head. In these circumstances, there is always a temptation to offer explanations that flatten out complexities, that entice by their simplicity.
One of these pops up from Hindutva commentators every decade or so. This says that a cultural elite has been ruling the country and Hindutva is the spontaneous movement of the masses to liberate itself. The usual rhetorical device involves personifying the narrowness of the elite by its association with a specific location.