BJP office set on fire in Bengal as protest over Prophet remarks turns violent
BJP’s Anirban Gnaguly posted a video claiming that the party office in Howrah was vandalised and burnt by protestors on Friday. A Bharatiya Janata Party office in Howrah’s Uluberia area was allegedly ransacked and burned by protestors on Friday, June 10. A BJP leader tweeted a video of the burned …
Ground Report: In Tagore town Bolpur, devta versus daanav play has voters hooked
For BJP workers in Bengal’s Bolpur, party candidate Dr Anirban Ganguly is the devta who will restore the constituency’s old glory. The daanav, for BJP supporters, is Trinamool Congress’ Anubrata Mondal. Iask Dr Anirban Ganguly how it feels to play god. He laughs a hearty laugh and says it is …
Ground Report: In Tagore town Bolpur, devta versus daanav play has voters hooked
I ask Dr Anirban Ganguly how it feels to play god. He laughs a hearty laugh and says it is people who make gods of men. “I am here to serve the people. Whatever they make me, I shall be,” BJP’s Bolpur candidate tells me. It is a dusty April …
New India Polity: The Modi mode
A re-energised nation moves towards empowerment and mainstreaming of the marginalised By the time the general elections of 2019 arrived, Narendra Modi’s vision of New India was on track. The vision had been firmly and clearly articulated, its ideationa contours had been laid and its working out on the ground …