The north-south divide in West Bengal
1 year, 11 months ago

The north-south divide in West Bengal

The Hindu  

In the second week of December 2022, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung organised a national seminar in New Delhi on the issue of Gorkhaland, which seeks a separate State to be carved out of territories of Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal. A few days after the convention, on December 28, when the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha and the Trinamool Congress wrested control of Darjeeling Municipality from Hamro Party, Binay Tamang quit the Trinamool Congress accusing West Bengal’s ruling party of bulldozing democracy in the hills. Different political parties have different stands on the demands of autonomy and creating a separate State out of the territories of West Bengal. While the politics around the north-south divide in West Bengal may appear to be murky, but outside the ambit of politics, there is a trust deficit between the north and the south.

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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India TV News  

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The Hindu  

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Op India  

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India Today  

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Hindustan Times  

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News 18  

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3 years, 4 months ago

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The Hindu  

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News 18  

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3 years, 6 months ago

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The Hindu  

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India Today  

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3 years, 7 months ago

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Op India  

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3 years, 7 months ago

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The Hindu  

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ABP News  

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News 18  

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India Today  

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3 years, 7 months ago

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India Today  

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The Hindu  

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Steep climb: The Hindu Editorial on BJP and the Darjeeling hills
3 years, 8 months ago

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The Hindu  

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3 years, 8 months ago

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News 18  

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3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Hill parties may no longer be holding sway in Darjeeling

The Hindu  

Like the steep and narrow roads leading to Darjeeling, politics in these hills of West Bengal is marked by twists and turns. In his absence, the State government gave control of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, a regional autonomous body to Binay Tamang and Anit Thapa who remained the Trinamool’s electoral ally but were against Mr. Gurung. They use a phrase …

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Abbas Siddique denies he would be making it easy for BJP
3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Abbas Siddique denies he would be making it easy for BJP

The Hindu  

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Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point
3 years, 8 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point

Deccan Chronicle  

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West Bengal Elections 2021 | Cooch Behar killings turning point, BJP to be routed from north Bengal: Bimal Gurung
3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Elections 2021 | Cooch Behar killings turning point, BJP to be routed from north Bengal: Bimal Gurung

The Hindu  

Asserting that Saturdays firing by the CISF in Cooch Behar, which claimed four lives, would prove to be a "turning point" in Bengal polls, Bimal Gurung, the chief of one of the two GJM factions, claimed that the BJP would face the wrath of voters in the remaining four phases of polling in the northern part of the State. Mr. …

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Electoral battle moves from purely rural to urban centres
3 years, 8 months ago

West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 | Electoral battle moves from purely rural to urban centres

The Hindu  

At almost halfway through a tough, now violent eight phase poll in West Bengal, the battle has shifted from the purely rural to urban centres and what are called seats of Greater Kolkata, a phase where the ruling Trinamool Congress holds sway and where the Bharatiya Janata Party seeks to improve on its 2019 tally rather than its dismal 2016 …

Game-changing phase in West Bengal
3 years, 8 months ago

Game-changing phase in West Bengal

The Hindu  

THE third, fourth and fifth phases of the eight-phase West Bengal Assembly election on April 6, April 10 and April 17 will witness some interesting battles in the ruling Trinamool Congress’ strongholds and in constituencies that are now considered the Bharatiya Janata Party’s bastion. As 120 of the 294 Assembly constituencies go to the polls in these phases, it is …

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