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Cracks in INDIA alliance — TMC to contest all 42 seats in West Bengal | Tarun Kumar Basu

Tarun Kumar Basu — 2024-02-03T03:40:26Z

Trinamool Supremo and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee says, that Congress has rejected TMC's proposal to acknowledge two seats and also said that the fate of the all-India alliance will be decided after the LS poll. However, the TMC has decided at the meeting of the party's senior leader with the Murshidabad district leadership to contest all 42 seats.
Ms. Banerjee said "We had given a proposal which they refused from the beginning. That is why our party has decided that we (…)

- 2024

Why is BJP's popularity declining in Bengal | Tarun Kumar Basu

Tarun Kumar Basu — 2022-04-22T14:24:18Z

The loss in the bypolls will send an alarm signals to the saffron camp
The massive erosion in vote share for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in bypolls in both Asansol Loksabha and Ballygunge assembly in West Bengal have kept the saffron camp aggrieved with just around two years left for the next parliamentary election in 2024.
But central leadership of BJP is not disquieted about the decline of vote sharing in all, the elections from Municipal Corporation to the bypolls. Since the (…)

- 2022

The Muslims would vote for Trinamool Congress in West Bengal Assembly Elections | Tarun Kumar Basu

Tarun Kumar Basu — 2020-12-11T18:37:15Z

Suvendu Adhikari, a heavy-weight TMC (Trinamool Congress)leader , known as a dissident, tendered his resignation as a cabinet minister recently. Not only Adhikari but also several TMC leaders raised their voice against the autocracy and nepotism of the top leaderlship of the party. A TMC MP and a renowned lawyer, Kalyan Bannerjee, called Adhikari a betrayer without naming him. Banerjee portrayed the Chief Minister of Bengal as a symbol of " Andolan" or mass movement who had brought (…)

- 2020

Is there any win-win solution for resolving the man-wildlife conflict? | Tarun Kumar Basu

Tarun Kumar Basu — 2020-07-31T06:17:25Z

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated." - Mahatma Gandhi
Now we have started understanding between the lines of the above quotation. Some heart-rending incidents happened in recent past in the country that caused national and international indignation. A wild pregnant elephant at Palakkad village in Kerala ate a fruit, filled with firecrackers that unfortunately exploded in her mouth. She was unable to chew any food and (…)

- 2020