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BJP leaders meet Shah over Bengal poll
By HT Correspondent, New Delhi
UPDATED ON JAN 16, 2021 04:32 AM IST
Bengal BJP leaders said that Friday’s meeting was held to review the Bengal poll preparedness against the backdrop of the report five central leaders prepared for Shah. Induction of leaders from the Trinamool Congress and other parties was also discussed at the meeting, said a BJP leader.
Trinamool shifts attention to infighting in party units after minister quits
By Tanmay Chatterjee | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JAN 06, 2021 05:29 PM IST
Not willing to be quoted, at least three TMC leaders admitted that infighting is an issue that plagues the organisation in several districts and addressing it before the assembly polls is urgent.
From BJP to Mamata Banerjee, a 10,000 farmer rally challenge in Kolkata
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON DEC 25, 2020 08:03 PM IST
BJP’s Bengal unit chief alleged that Mamata Banerjee prefers to send her emissaries to meet agitating farmers stationed at Delhi borders but does not allow any protest rally in the state.
Prashant Kishor spotlights BJP’s ‘struggle’ in Bengal polls, party reacts
By Tanmay Chatterjee | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON DEC 21, 2020 03:16 PM IST
This was the first such statement from Prashant Kishor, who avoids the media and does not comment on the work done by him and his company, that has been targeted not only by dissidents in the Trinamool but BJP leaders as well.
‘Hospital beds to fall short’: Bengal BJP chief vows revenge on Trinamool
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON DEC 14, 2020 09:13 PM IST
This is not the first time that the BJP has issued such a dire warning. A day after the attack on BJP chief JP Nadda’s convoy on Thursday in South 24 Parganas, Ghosh had said he was “noting everything”.
Mamata Banerjee in north Bengal to boost party’s morale, counter BJP
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON DEC 14, 2020 08:17 PM IST
That the Trinamool is jittery with north Bengal was also evident when the party’s youth wing president Abhishek Banerjee, CM Banerjee’s nephew, and election strategist Prashant Kishor rushed to north Bengal in October to iron out differences in the ranks.
Stones hurled at Bengal BJP chief Ghosh’s convoy; TMC says staged
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON NOV 13, 2020 08:21 AM IST
Stones were hurled at the cars and the leader was shown black flags, the workers said. While nobody was injured, three cars were damaged, they said. A team of officers were able to bring the situation under control.
‘Expert on Gujarat Gymkhana, not Bengal’: TMC on Amit Shah’s statue flub
By Tanmay Chatterjee | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON NOV 07, 2020 11:58 AM IST
Vivekananda Patra, president of the BJP’s Bankura district unit, admitted that an error was made while attempting to spot a statue of Birsa Munda not far from Bankura town where Amit Shah held a closed-door meeting with leaders from 13 districts.
Man’s body in mortuary for 18 days as BJP and Trinamool slug it out in court
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON NOV 04, 2020 07:23 PM IST
The BJP said the man, Madan Ghorui, was a party supporter and alleged that he died because of torture in judicial custody. This triggered a legal battle at the Calcutta High Court and Ghorui’s body was sent back to the morgue hours after it was handed over to his family following post mortem examination.
Bengal BJP president dissolves all district youth morcha committees; differences brewing
By HT Correspondent | Posted by Abhinav Sahay | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2020 07:35 AM IST
The announcement of dissolution of committees was made on state BJP president Dilip Ghosh’s personal letterhead and not party’s.
Differences surface in Bengal BJP over induction of new faces in youth front
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON SEP 07, 2020 08:24 AM IST
Differences cropped up recently after Saumitra Khan, a member of the Lok Sabha and the state Yuva Morcha president, announced the list of members in the youth front’s new state committee.
Speculations rife on role allotment in Bengal BJP after meetings in Delhi, Kolkata
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON AUG 16, 2020 11:40 PM IST
While BJP national general secretary and the party’s in-charge of West Bengal, Kailash Vijayvargiya met the party’s national executive member Mukul Roy in Kolkata, the Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh met party president JP Nadda in Delhi
‘We are campaigning for civic polls because of more dangerous virus’: Bengal BJP leader amid coronavirus scare
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON MAR 16, 2020 10:00 AM IST
The parties in West Bengal want civic polls deferred.An all-party meeting is scheduled at the state election commission’s office on Monday.
Bengal BJP calls chief minister Mamata Banerjee ‘anti-Hindu’
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON MAR 08, 2020 09:54 PM IST
One of the points of the charge-sheet tagged Banerjee as ‘anti-Hindu’. It was launched by Bengal BJP unit president Dilip Ghosh.
Bengal BJP will not give up NRC demand, says Dilip Ghosh
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON FEB 27, 2020 06:10 PM IST
Ghosh was confident that the TMC’s high-voltage campaign on NRC and Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) will boomerang.
Bengal BJP to launch toll-free number for public grievances, TMC calls it copycat
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON FEB 16, 2020 04:04 PM IST
The BJP said the number which will be launched before municipal polls in more than a hundred civic bodies in April-May, being seen as ‘semi-final’ before the 2021 Assembly elections
Mamata’s former confidante Mukul Roy emerges as Bengal BJP’s key poll manager
By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON FEB 09, 2020 09:25 PM IST
The municipal elections in the state, likely to be held in April, are widely being seen as the ‘semi-final’ before the 2021 assembly elections.
‘Dussasana, Shikhandi’: Mamata, BJP Bengal chief invoke Mahabharata in CAA spat
By Press Trust of India | Ranaghat (West Bengal)
UPDATED ON FEB 04, 2020 07:07 PM IST
Attacking the Centre over the Citizenship Amendment Act, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee wondered whether the Modi government would throw her out of the country because she does not have her mother’s birth certificate.
Land in jails to become leaders, says Bengal BJP chief
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JAN 30, 2020 08:56 PM IST
Trinamool Congress said the BJP was trying to destabilise law and order situation in the state.
Bengal BJP’s door-to-door campaign on CAA intensifies, so does tension
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JAN 25, 2020 01:48 AM IST
The close interactions have also triggered tension in many places. On Thursday night, for example, there was a clash between BJP and Trinamool Congress supporters in the posh Jodhpur Park area of south Kolkata. A local youth and a police sub-inspector were allegedly slashed with knives.
At pro-CAA rally, Bengal BJP chief vows to send back ‘infiltrators and their supporters’
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON AUG 28, 2020 09:41 PM IST
Diliip Ghosh later led another pro-CAA rally, in the same district, in Naihati town. In the morning, TMC took out a rally opposing CAA and NRC in Jalpaiguri district of north Bengal.
CAA saves Hindus from NRC screening, says Bengal BJP booklet; sets up row
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON JAN 06, 2020 09:44 PM IST
The 23-page booklet that was released by the Bengal BJP on Sunday has also declared that the government will implement the NRC project next.
‘Will she punish herself after sharing dais with PM?’: Bengal BJP mocks Mamata
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JAN 04, 2020 07:24 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend the 150th-anniversary celebration of the Calcutta Port Trust on January 11. The chief minister is among the invitees.
Bengal BJP cites examples from the Arab world to counter anti-CAA sentiment among Muslims
By Tanmay Chatterjee | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON JAN 04, 2020 05:42 AM IST
The strategy for Bengal comes in the wake of BJP national president Amit Shah’s announcement that the party will win the crucial 2021 Bengal assembly polls with a two-thirds majority.
Why milk of Indian cows is yellow? Bengal BJP chief explains
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 05, 2019 02:47 PM IST
Calling cow ‘our mother’, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh also said that if anyone misbehaves with ‘my mother’, he will treat them the way they should be treated.
Bengal BJP worker beaten to death, party point fingers at TMC
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON OCT 06, 2019 10:18 PM IST
The police, however, ruled out any political connection and said Sheikh died during a scuffle with a distant relative.
Bengal BJP president retreats after ‘go back’ slogans greet him in Kolkata, party blames Trinamool
By HT Correspondent | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2019 02:22 PM IST
Bengal BJP president’s informal meeting with residents of a Kolkata neighbourhood was disrupted by miscreants. BJP blames TMC for the incident but Trinamool Congress party denies allegations.
Induction of TMC leaders causes heartburn at Bengal BJP meet
By Tanmay Chatterjee | Hindustan Times, Kolkata
UPDATED ON AUG 20, 2019 09:16 PM IST
A sizeable section of those involved in expanding the BJP and its frontal organisations in the districts said that TMC leaders were being welcomed without any scrutiny which was damaging for a cadre-based party.
Let off with light dose, says Bengal BJP chief after party workers thrash woman
By HT Correspondent | Kolkata
PUBLISHED ON AUG 20, 2019 04:31 AM IST
Speaking with mediapersons, the woman said when Ghosh left the meeting and was getting into his vehicle, she tried to hand him a letter, but BJP supporters dragged her away and thrashed her.
Bengal BJP worker wanted in TMC activist’s murder found dead
By Koushik Dutta | Hindustan Times, Midnapore
UPDATED ON JUL 28, 2019 02:18 PM IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of killing its workers in Bengal.
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