KOLKATA: A day ahead of the first round of voting in Bengal’s two-phase assembly elections, Mamata Banerjee On Wednesday, she issued a slogan of “bodol noy, bodla chai (revenge, not change)”, reversing her old slogan of 2011 “bodla noy, bodla chai (change, not revenge)” when she dismantled the state’s decades-old left front bastion in a … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta High Court holds the key to whether nearly 4.5 million “suspicious voters” will be able to contest the Bengal assembly elections – their cases being decided by judicial officers based on the Supreme Court’s February directive. According to reports, of the 6 million “suspicious elector” cases, 1.5 million have been adjudicated … Read more
New Delhi: Yes congress Is the decision to go it alone in West Bengal a bold political move considering the long-term interests of the party? Or is the move fraught with political risk in a state where the great old party has been virtually wiped out? The Congress party, facing an existential crisis in the … Read more