BJP leader Suvendu Adhikary, who is pitted against his mentor West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Nandigram in the coming state election, has declared net worth of over Rs 80 lakh. As per the 50-year-old leader s affidavit to the Election Commission his net worth is Rs 80,66,749.32. His movable assets are worth Rs 59,31,647.32 while his bank balance is Rs 46,15,513.32, including Rs 41,823 in his election expenditure account. His income in 2019-20 was Rs 1,115,715.00 and his cash in hand is Rs 50,000.00, as per his affidavit. Adhikari also has National Saving Certificate (NSC) deposit of RS 5,45,000 and insurance of Rs 7,71,165. Adhikary has immovable assets including plots of land worth Rs 46,21,102, it said.
His income in 2019-20 was Rs 1,115,715.00 and his cash in hand is Rs 50,000.00, as per his affidavit. Adhikari also has National Saving Certificate (NSC) deposit of RS 5,45,000 and insurance of Rs 7,71,165.
Adhikari s movable assets are worth Rs 59,31,647.32 while his bank balance is Rs 46,15,513.32, including Rs 41,823 in his election expenditure account.
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Mar 12, 2021, 13:26 IST
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The BJP is posing a serious challenge to break the TMC in the same place where Mamata Banerjee fought fiercely and formed her party
Mamata Banerjee’s decision to contest the upcoming state Assembly elections from Nandigram mirrors a larger and more heated political battle panning out in Bengal. It is also the first time in her four-decade-old political career that the West Bengal CM has chosen to fight from outside her traditional south Kolkata seats.
One of the chief reasons for her decision is an attempt to even out the fissures that have emerged among the one lakh-odd party voters after her trusted lieutenant Suvendu Adhikari (who had won the seat in 2016) defected to the BJP on December 16 last year, three months before the polls were announced in Bengal. Adhikari, 50, will now take on the chief minister in Nandigram as it goes to polls on April 1 in the second phase of the
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The tit-for-tat communal campaign by both BJP and TMC ignores the ground realities of Nandigram.
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Trinamool Congress supporters praying for the speedy recovery of party chief and West Bengal CM Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, outside SSKM hospital, in Kolkata on March 11, 2021. Ms. Banerjee has been admitted to the hospital after she suffered an injury in her leg during her campaign at Nandigram.
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The tit-for-tat communal campaign by both BJP and TMC ignores the ground realities of Nandigram.
Less that two decades ago, towards the end of the Left Front’s 34-year regime in 2007, Nandigram not only emerged as the sign of protest against forcible land acquisition but it also as one of biggest symbols of communal harmony. Hindus and Muslims came together to resist the acquisition of land for a petrochemical hub proposed by the then government and people from both communities were united in the resistance during the violent agitatio