Hard-fought Nandigram win icing on cake for Suvendu | Kolkata News

Kolkata/Nandigram: For Suvendu Adhikari, the architect of the 2021 giant-slaying of Mamata Banerjee, Nandigram has once again proven that “Dada’s backyard” remains impregnable.Hours after the election results confirmed his second consecutive victory from this high-stakes battlefield, BJP insiders said it was a foregone conclusion and that it had been “game, set and match” in favour…

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DA, jobs trump fears over culture and food | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Non-industrialisation, joblessness and often unchecked corruption triumphed over cultural-culinary fears on Monday.Trinamool Congress went to polls with party chief Mamata Banerjee framing the contest as a battle for Bengali identity against a hostile central govt. Tactics included how Bengali migrant workers were being targeted in other states, the BJP‘s alleged dictates on non-veg food…

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Didi dam fails to shield TMC as anti-incumbency currents surge through strongholds across state | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Throughout the campaign, Mamata Banerjee leaned on her 2021 playbook, famously asserting that she was the ‘sole candidate’ in all 294 seats. This time, however, the strategy backfired. The gap between the leadership’s high-octane rhetoric and the grim ground reality became an unbridgeable chasm.In a political earthquake that has shattered nearly 15 years of…

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