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Nisith Pramanik with PM Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: Four first-time Lok Sabha MPs from West Bengal Shantanu Thakur, John Barla, Nishith Pramanik and Subhash Sarkarwere inducted into the Union council of ministers on Wednesday, a move indicating that BJP’s hasn’t lost focus on the state after Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress returned to power for a third successive term.
Two existing ministers of state Babul Supriyo and Debasri Chaudhury were dropped in the rejig.
BJP seems keen on building on the strength of 77 assembly seats it won for the first time in the state, with 2024 Lok Sabha polls in sight. The four ministers have been carefully chosen from regions where the party either has a good presence like in north Bengal or where it could improve on its present strength.
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Can Suvendu Become Bengalâs Himanta? The Answer Is A Qualified âYesâ
by Jaideep Mazumdar - May 11, 2021 11:54 AM
Suvendu Adhikari.
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The BJP central leadership must give Adhikari a free hand in steering the party, and empower him to lead the party to victory in 2026, if not earlier.
The election of Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari as head of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislature party has enthused a large number of embattled BJP cadres and supporters who have been subjected to horrific atrocities for over a week now.
A number of BJP functionaries and supporters are pinning their hopes on Adhikari to put up a strong resistance to the Trinamool both inside the assembly and outside it.
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May 2 Verdict: BJP may have not won a famous victory in Bengal but its outlook certainly has prevailed May 4, 2021, 7:17 PM IST
The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now
The BJP must be silently chafing at not having delivered the people of Bengal from, in the saffron party’s own words, the ‘’tolabaaz syndicate led by the Begum of Bengal’’.
The BJP repeatedly told us Bengal was fed up with the TMC for taking ‘’cut-money” from the most indigent and was resentful that its chief Mamata Banerjee churlishly refused to dignify the slogan Jai Shri Ram.
That there was some merit in the assessment was borne out by Mamata Banerjee’s chief poll strategist Prashant Kishor. In a leaked audio conversation he was heard conceding that Hindi-speaking Hindus and a section of electorally influential tribal communities had fallen under BJP chief campaigner Prime Minister Modi’s spell.