Puja, prep and poise mark candidates’ final Sunday before high-stakes verdict day | Kolkata News

Kolkata: From offering pujas to spending hours with their counting agents and dropping in for a quick adda with party workers, candidates tried to keep their calm ahead of Monday’s poll verdicts. Debasish Kumar, Trinamool’s Rash Behari candidate, spent the entire Sunday with party workers. “I was with my fellow party workers, discussing the preparations…

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Kolkata balloon seller clears ICSE, says ‘if I stop selling, my studies would stop’ | Kolkata News

Despite the hardship, Neha wants to study management and become financially independent. She hopes to help other underprivileged children and improve her family’s standard of living. KOLKATA : On vibrant, neon-lit corners of Park Street, a 24year-old moves through the evening rush carrying a cluster of brightly coloured balloons to sell. Neha Khatoon is a…

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‘Win doesn’t mean revenge’: Samik urges peace ahead of count | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Sunday appealed to both BJP and Trinamool workers to resist provocation and violence ahead of Monday’s counting, saying political differences must not translate into vengeance.“Our primary objective is to change Bengal’s political culture — the culture of reprisal and revenge. Whatever we were subjected to after 2016 and…

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Have nerves? Come fight in Falta: Abhishek dares ‘godfathers’ of BJP | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee threw a sweeping challenge to BJP bigwigs to contest the Falta assembly segment repoll after the Election Commission countermanded the April 29 Falta polls and ordered a repoll on May 21 across all 285 booths in the constituency.Banerjee’s defiant response came after BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya…

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