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  • After BJP’s debacle in rural polls, Amit Shah prone to seek advice from Bengal subsequent month

    Through Specific Information Carrier

    KOLKATA: Within the backdrop of large-scale violence and a pointy drop of 16% within the vote percentage of the BJP within the just-concluded panchayat elections, Union House Minister Amit Shah is prone to seek advice from West Bengal subsequent month.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, who returned to Kolkata on Saturday after assembly Shah in Delhi, mentioned, “Amit-ji is anticipated to seek advice from the state in August and the date is dependent upon his time table. He’s involved concerning the prevailing scenario in Bengal and he desires peace to go back. He desires no longer a unmarried dying from any birthday celebration anymore.”

    The saffron camp’s Bengal bankruptcy head mentioned Shah is tracking the deployment of central forces in Bengal. “The central pressure workforce, who had been deployed within the state for the agricultural polls, shall be stationed in Bengal for some extra time,” he added.

    Resources within the Bengal BJP mentioned an inventory of strife-hit spaces could be despatched to the place of business of the Union House Minister in order that they are able to be added to his time table all through his Bengal seek advice from.

    ALSO READ | Courses from the violent West Bengal panchayat ballot  

    Shah termed the incidents within the rural polls that claimed 39 lives as “bloodcurdling” violence. “Even bloodcurdling violence in West Bengal may no longer forestall the BJP from striking up a stellar efficiency within the panchayat election. The BJP just about doubled its seat tally from the former election, indicating an important upward thrust within the accept as true with positioned through the folks,” he tweeted.

    BJP functionaries in Bengal mentioned Shah’s commentary describing the birthday celebration’s efficiency as a “important upward thrust” used to be in comparison to its tally within the 2018 rural polls.

    “However we won a setback within the panchayat elections evaluating to our vote percentage within the 2021 Meeting elections. Our birthday celebration’s vote percentage got here all the way down to 22 in step with cent within the rural polls after we secured 38 in step with cent votes within the elections two years in the past,” mentioned a BJP chief in Kolkata, including, “The statistics don’t replicate the true image of the loss in our grassroot-level beef up base as we did not put up nominations in lots of seats as a result of the TMC’s muscle flexing and the violence unleashed through the ruling birthday celebration. However is is proven fact that we suffered considerably within the rural polls.”

    The chief additionally identified that the birthday celebration’s efficiency used to be disappointing within the constituencies of lots of its MPs which isn’t a just right signal sooner than subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections. “Throughout his ultimate Bengal seek advice from, Shah mentioned in a public rally that the BJP would bag ultimately 35 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 however our efficiency within the rural polls used to be no longer in favour of the objective,” he added.

    KOLKATA: Within the backdrop of large-scale violence and a pointy drop of 16% within the vote percentage of the BJP within the just-concluded panchayat elections, Union House Minister Amit Shah is prone to seek advice from West Bengal subsequent month.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, who returned to Kolkata on Saturday after assembly Shah in Delhi, mentioned, “Amit-ji is anticipated to seek advice from the state in August and the date is dependent upon his time table. He’s involved concerning the prevailing scenario in Bengal and he desires peace to go back. He desires no longer a unmarried dying from any birthday celebration anymore.”

    The saffron camp’s Bengal bankruptcy head mentioned Shah is tracking the deployment of central forces in Bengal. “The central pressure workforce, who had been deployed within the state for the agricultural polls, shall be stationed in Bengal for some extra time,” he added.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Resources within the Bengal BJP mentioned an inventory of strife-hit spaces could be despatched to the place of business of the Union House Minister in order that they are able to be added to his time table all through his Bengal seek advice from.

    ALSO READ | Courses from the violent West Bengal panchayat ballot  

    Shah termed the incidents within the rural polls that claimed 39 lives as “bloodcurdling” violence. “Even bloodcurdling violence in West Bengal may no longer forestall the BJP from striking up a stellar efficiency within the panchayat election. The BJP just about doubled its seat tally from the former election, indicating an important upward thrust within the accept as true with positioned through the folks,” he tweeted.

    BJP functionaries in Bengal mentioned Shah’s commentary describing the birthday celebration’s efficiency as a “important upward thrust” used to be in comparison to its tally within the 2018 rural polls.

    “However we won a setback within the panchayat elections evaluating to our vote percentage within the 2021 Meeting elections. Our birthday celebration’s vote percentage got here all the way down to 22 in step with cent within the rural polls after we secured 38 in step with cent votes within the elections two years in the past,” mentioned a BJP chief in Kolkata, including, “The statistics don’t replicate the true image of the loss in our grassroot-level beef up base as we did not put up nominations in lots of seats as a result of the TMC’s muscle flexing and the violence unleashed through the ruling birthday celebration. However is is proven fact that we suffered considerably within the rural polls.”

    The chief additionally identified that the birthday celebration’s efficiency used to be disappointing within the constituencies of lots of its MPs which isn’t a just right signal sooner than subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha elections. “Throughout his ultimate Bengal seek advice from, Shah mentioned in a public rally that the BJP would bag ultimately 35 Lok Sabha seats in 2024 however our efficiency within the rural polls used to be no longer in favour of the objective,” he added.

  • Bengal: TMC employee killed, Cong activist shot at in rural ballot violence 

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) employee used to be killed and a Congress activist shot at in separate incidents of violence forward of the July 8 panchayat polls in West Bengal, police mentioned on Sunday.

    The TMC employee, recognized as 52-year-old Jiyarul Molla, used to be shot useless within the Phulmalancha space in Basanti in South 24 Parganas district overdue on Saturday evening when he used to be returning house, a police officer mentioned.

    In some other incident at Samserganj in Murshidabad district on Sunday evening, Congress employee Arif Seikh used to be critically injured after being shot at by way of unidentified males, some other police officer mentioned.

    Seikh used to be taken to the Jangipur Sanatorium after he used to be shot at throughout an altercation with some folks when he used to be campaigning for native panchayat candidate, the officer mentioned, including that his situation used to be essential.

    As information of the assault on Seikh surfaced, Congress staff blocked roads in numerous portions of Samserganj, disrupting vehicular motion for a number of hours.

    Samserganj Block Congress president B Seikh alleged that the TMC used to be “at the back of the unprovoked firing incident” and mentioned birthday party staff would once more reveal on Monday.

    Then again, the TMC denied the rate, saying that the firing incident came about “because of competition” and it has “not anything to do with politics”.

    Within the Basanti incident, an area Indian Secular Entrance (ISF) chief claimed that the deceased, who used to be an in depth affiliate of TMC chief Amarul Laskar, used to be a “sufferer of infighting throughout the ruling birthday party”.

    Molla’s daughter Manwara, who’s a TMC candidate in Kathalberia gram panchayat, additionally alleged that her father had complained to the police about “common threats” from a rival faction which requested him to hand over politics however the “regulation enforcers didn’t take any motion”.

    “I’m a first-time candidate. My candidature isn’t appreciated by way of some other native faction within the birthday party. I call for a high-level probe into the homicide of my father,” she advised journalists.

    Native TMC MLA Saokat Molla mentioned the police will probe the topic and take steered motion in opposition to whoever is accountable.

    With the recent dying, 10 folks had been killed up to now in rural poll-related violence in West Bengal for the reason that submitting of nominations started on June 9, in keeping with police stories.

    In the meantime, no less than 10 folks have been injured in clashes between CPI(M) and ISF supporters on one aspect and the ones of the TMC at the different in Paschim Medinipur district on Sunday, police mentioned.

    The incident happened within the Krishnapur space in Chandrakona within the morning after TMC participants attempted to place up birthday party flags and confronted resistance from opposition activists.

    The ten injured folks, who belong to each camps, had been admitted to hospitals, the place they’re present process remedy, some other police officer mentioned, including that their situation is said to be solid.

    In some other incident, Ibrahim Mollah, a TMC candidate in Chaltaberia gram panchayat, used to be critically injured when he used to be thrashed and stabbed allegedly by way of ISF activists on Saturday evening, the police mentioned.

    The incident came about when he used to be returning house within the Bhangar space in South 24 Parganas after campaigning, the officer mentioned.

    TMC chief Saokat Molla alleged that ISF’s Bhangar MLA Naushad Siddique used to be “at the back of the assault” as he sought after to unharness a “reign of terror” within the space.

    Siddique, on the other hand, pushed aside the rate and alleged that the TMC used to be “threatening and intimidating ISF staff” in villages.

    “Villagers are protesting in opposition to the atrocities and ‘bomb tradition’ of the TMC. Those protests don’t seem to be being appreciated by way of the crowd patronised by way of the ruling birthday party chief. The ISF believes in non violent motion by way of folks, now not violence,” he added.

    Round 5.67 crore individuals are eligible to solid their votes within the three-tier panchayat elections within the state on July 8 for just about 74,000 seats in zilla parishads, panchayat samitis and gram panchayats.

    KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) employee used to be killed and a Congress activist shot at in separate incidents of violence forward of the July 8 panchayat polls in West Bengal, police mentioned on Sunday.

    The TMC employee, recognized as 52-year-old Jiyarul Molla, used to be shot useless within the Phulmalancha space in Basanti in South 24 Parganas district overdue on Saturday evening when he used to be returning house, a police officer mentioned.

    In some other incident at Samserganj in Murshidabad district on Sunday evening, Congress employee Arif Seikh used to be critically injured after being shot at by way of unidentified males, some other police officer mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Seikh used to be taken to the Jangipur Sanatorium after he used to be shot at throughout an altercation with some folks when he used to be campaigning for native panchayat candidate, the officer mentioned, including that his situation used to be essential.

    As information of the assault on Seikh surfaced, Congress staff blocked roads in numerous portions of Samserganj, disrupting vehicular motion for a number of hours.

    Samserganj Block Congress president B Seikh alleged that the TMC used to be “at the back of the unprovoked firing incident” and mentioned birthday party staff would once more reveal on Monday.

    Then again, the TMC denied the rate, saying that the firing incident came about “because of competition” and it has “not anything to do with politics”.

    Within the Basanti incident, an area Indian Secular Entrance (ISF) chief claimed that the deceased, who used to be an in depth affiliate of TMC chief Amarul Laskar, used to be a “sufferer of infighting throughout the ruling birthday party”.

    Molla’s daughter Manwara, who’s a TMC candidate in Kathalberia gram panchayat, additionally alleged that her father had complained to the police about “common threats” from a rival faction which requested him to hand over politics however the “regulation enforcers didn’t take any motion”.

    “I’m a first-time candidate. My candidature isn’t appreciated by way of some other native faction within the birthday party. I call for a high-level probe into the homicide of my father,” she advised journalists.

    Native TMC MLA Saokat Molla mentioned the police will probe the topic and take steered motion in opposition to whoever is accountable.

    With the recent dying, 10 folks had been killed up to now in rural poll-related violence in West Bengal for the reason that submitting of nominations started on June 9, in keeping with police stories.

    In the meantime, no less than 10 folks have been injured in clashes between CPI(M) and ISF supporters on one aspect and the ones of the TMC at the different in Paschim Medinipur district on Sunday, police mentioned.

    The incident happened within the Krishnapur space in Chandrakona within the morning after TMC participants attempted to place up birthday party flags and confronted resistance from opposition activists.

    The ten injured folks, who belong to each camps, had been admitted to hospitals, the place they’re present process remedy, some other police officer mentioned, including that their situation is said to be solid.

    In some other incident, Ibrahim Mollah, a TMC candidate in Chaltaberia gram panchayat, used to be critically injured when he used to be thrashed and stabbed allegedly by way of ISF activists on Saturday evening, the police mentioned.

    The incident came about when he used to be returning house within the Bhangar space in South 24 Parganas after campaigning, the officer mentioned.

    TMC chief Saokat Molla alleged that ISF’s Bhangar MLA Naushad Siddique used to be “at the back of the assault” as he sought after to unharness a “reign of terror” within the space.

    Siddique, on the other hand, pushed aside the rate and alleged that the TMC used to be “threatening and intimidating ISF staff” in villages.

    “Villagers are protesting in opposition to the atrocities and ‘bomb tradition’ of the TMC. Those protests don’t seem to be being appreciated by way of the crowd patronised by way of the ruling birthday party chief. The ISF believes in non violent motion by way of folks, now not violence,” he added.

    Round 5.67 crore individuals are eligible to solid their votes within the three-tier panchayat elections within the state on July 8 for just about 74,000 seats in zilla parishads, panchayat samitis and gram panchayats.

  • BJP will are available in Bengal thru election, now not through poaching TMC MLAs

    By means of Categorical Information Carrier

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s chief of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday mentioned the BJP has no aim to derail the Trinamool Congress-led Bengal govt through poaching MLAs of the ruling celebration because the saffron camp will come to energy within the state thru election.

    Relating to his previous December time limit pronouncing 3 dates hinting that the TMC would now not have the ability to run the federal government, Adhikari, whilst addressing a rally at his Kanthi fatherland in East Midnapore, mentioned, “I supposed about essential tendencies in Bengal politics. I by no means supposed that we will be able to derail the TMC govt. Do you wish to have to derail the federal government through poaching TMC MLAs? The BJP doesn’t need it. The BJP will come to energy thru elections.”

    Adhikari additionally mentioned that once coming to energy in Bengal, bulldozers will run within the state like Uttar Pradesh. Opposition events alleged using bulldozers in UP emerged as a brand new supply of hate within the saffron camp’s politics.

    Adhikari’s rally in Kanthi was once mentioned to be a counter tournament of TMC’s nationwide common secretary and leader minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s rally in the similar position not too long ago.

    Giving a choice to verify victory within the subsequent yr’s panchayat elections, Adhikari mentioned the applicants successful within the rural polls gets homes beneath the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).     

    “We can box applicants in every seat within the panchayat elections and you’ll have to be sure the victory. I’m pronouncing with none doubt the successful applicants gets homes beneath the PMAY,” he mentioned.

    The PMAY scheme created embarrassment for the TMC at this time as hundreds of the ruling celebration’s panchayat functionaries and their family, who don’t seem to be eligible, enrolled themselves beneath the central scheme.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal’s chief of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday mentioned the BJP has no aim to derail the Trinamool Congress-led Bengal govt through poaching MLAs of the ruling celebration because the saffron camp will come to energy within the state thru election.

    Relating to his previous December time limit pronouncing 3 dates hinting that the TMC would now not have the ability to run the federal government, Adhikari, whilst addressing a rally at his Kanthi fatherland in East Midnapore, mentioned, “I supposed about essential tendencies in Bengal politics. I by no means supposed that we will be able to derail the TMC govt. Do you wish to have to derail the federal government through poaching TMC MLAs? The BJP doesn’t need it. The BJP will come to energy thru elections.”

    Adhikari additionally mentioned that once coming to energy in Bengal, bulldozers will run within the state like Uttar Pradesh. Opposition events alleged using bulldozers in UP emerged as a brand new supply of hate within the saffron camp’s politics.

    Adhikari’s rally in Kanthi was once mentioned to be a counter tournament of TMC’s nationwide common secretary and leader minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s rally in the similar position not too long ago.

    Giving a choice to verify victory within the subsequent yr’s panchayat elections, Adhikari mentioned the applicants successful within the rural polls gets homes beneath the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).     

    “We can box applicants in every seat within the panchayat elections and you’ll have to be sure the victory. I’m pronouncing with none doubt the successful applicants gets homes beneath the PMAY,” he mentioned.

    The PMAY scheme created embarrassment for the TMC at this time as hundreds of the ruling celebration’s panchayat functionaries and their family, who don’t seem to be eligible, enrolled themselves beneath the central scheme.