#WestBengalpolitics

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: ISI Kolkata teacher, neuroscientist, ‘Bangla Pokkho’ leader: The many faces of Garga Chatterjee

A week after her party’s defeat and a day after the newly formed government’s first cabinet meeting, former chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee sent a message to her followers through a poem on Tuesday titled “Brave”.…

The former fire and emergency services minister was a political heavyweight from Bidhannagar, is well known for organising one of Kolkata’s biggest Durga Pujas

Indian political science moved away from the concept of factionalism, associating it with weak institutions and disorderly politics. West Bengal reveals that these are enduring mechanisms through which power is organised, distributed, and contested.

From Indianexpress RSS Feed: The BJP’s first government in Bengal signals more than a change of regime

While the two parties increasingly share a policy direction — even when emphasis differs — on welfare, infrastructure, agriculture, women, labour and growth, they continue to differ sharply on minority provisions, the administration of caste identity and…

The roots of Bengal’s electoral violence lie in the cadre-based politics that emerged during decades of Left Front rule. The transition from the Left Front to Mamata Banerjee in 2011 did little to dismantle this entrenched culture