What s Determining the BJP s Prospects in West Bengal?
BJP leaders including state president Dilip Ghosh on a Poribortan Yatra . Photo: Twitter/@BJP4India
Politics28/Feb/2021
Kolkata: Elections are crystal-ball-gazing times. Predicting how voters will exercise their choice is tricky, more so when the topography of politics is changing from a tradition of conscious and consensually managed secular competition to polarisation along communally divided identities.Â
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has succeeded in installing itself as the pivot in all conversations, which going by the reputation of West Bengal as highly politically conscious, could be at least once every day, at home, at work, travelling or shopping. In building a perception about its chances of winning the 2021 state assembly elections, the BJP has made the act of choosing an almost absolutely predictable event, converting the process into a confirmation of what the so-called âeveryoneâ knows.
Battleground Bengal: How The Congress-Left Combine May Have Scored A Self-Goal By Aligning With An Islamic Party
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Feb 19, 2021 09:14 AM
Indian Secular Front founder Abbas Siddiqui.
Snapshot
As it stands now, the Muslim vote is most likely to get divided between the Congress-Left-ISF gathbandhan and the Trinamool.
And that is sure to work to the advantage of the BJP in many constituencies.
The newly-formed Congress-Left alliance in Bengal has
started seat-sharing talks with the fledgling Indian Secular Front (ISF) formed by Muslim cleric Abbas Siddiqui.
The sole intention of the Congress-Left combine of including the Islamic party in their
On January 28, the Congress and the Left Front had sealed a deal for 193 seats. The Left will contest in 101 seats and the Congress in 92 constituencies. The third round of talks held during the day was for the remaining 101 seats.
BJP s Assam strategy: Disregard Miya Muslims, re-doing NRC lists and rally in key areas
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The party is making its presence felt in key pockets like the latest visit planned by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 6 to the tea estates of Assam. Over 8 lakh tea workers will be provided Rs 3000 each through direct benefit transfer wooing the tea tribes, a crucial support base for the BJP in Assam, who are a determining factor in at least 30 assembly seats.
GUWAHATI: As Assam gears up for the assembly polls, the ruling BJP is harping on a three-pronged strategy to retain its Eastern bastion –– creating a divide among the Muslims by asking only those from Assam to vote for them while disowning Muslims from Bangladesh; leveraging the political dividends from PM Modi-Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman’s visits to the state; and insisting on redoing the NRC lists, if large-scale anomalies are found in the re-verification exercise.
Synopsis
Th BJP is making its presence felt in key pockets like the latest visit planned by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on February 6 to the tea estates of Assam.
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Guwahati: As Assam gears up for the assembly polls, the ruling BJP is harping on a three-pronged strategy to retain its Eastern bastion –– creating a distinction among the Muslim population by asking only those from Assam to vote for them while disowning Muslims from Bangladesh; leveraging the political dividends from PM Modi, Shah and Nirmala Sitharaman’s visits to the state; and insisting on redoing the
NRC lists, if large-scale anomalies are found in the re-verification exercise.