Two BJP workers have been murdered in Purulia district of West Bengal in the last one week and their bodies were recovered hanging. During the recently held Panchayat election, the BJP wrested the lion’s share of Gram Panchayat seats from the ruling Trinamool Congress in Purulia and has turned the Maoist-influenced district into its electoral … Read more
State and state-sponsored right-wing fascist violence continues unabated in West Bengal, especially in the battleground of Bhangar, where the villagers of several villages of the block are resisting the efforts of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government to seize their land forcefully and hand it over to a PSU for setting up a power … Read more
The fields of West Bengal’s countryside were crimsoned by the blood, spilling from the corpse of those who were lynched by the ruling Trinamool Congress or its opponents, the BJP and the CPI(M), in their quest for seizing as many seats possible in the three-tier Panchayat election of 2018. The 2018 West Bengal Panchayat election … Read more
The almost nondescript town known only for its coal mines, erstwhile industries and a thriving railway division, Asansol hitherto managed to get national mainstream media coverage only during the tragic coal mine mishaps in which the poor workers died in large numbers. Death and violence are still the reasons for which Asansol is sought by … Read more
West Bengal is experiencing a paradigm shift in its political theatre as the BJP and the Mamata Banerjee-led ruling Trinamool Congress entered into a cut-throat competition to outdo each other in playing the game of communal polarisation. The state that was once called the oasis of secularism in a country that is ravaged by communal … Read more
After a brief lull, following a communal carnage in Basirhat area of North 24 Paragana district, West Bengal is again going to get into another bigger communal turmoil, as Mamata Banerjee, in her attempt to covertly shower blessings on the electoral fortune of the BJP in the state, took a communally biased decision to bar … Read more
Darjeeling is undergoing a severe turbulence, after a long period of lull in the violent Gorkhaland agitation, due to the apathy showed by the Trinamool Congress government, which is duping the people of the hills over their demand for a separate Gorkhaland. The TMC government led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is walking on the … Read more
BJP chief of West Bengal and MLA, Dilip Ghosh declared to the media that the BJP support the rally organised by the RSS and the VHP on 5th April in Kolkata on the occasion of Ram Navami, a non-Bengali festival that’s observed in northern and western parts of India. The dangerous part, as reported by … Read more
The General Secretary of the CPI(M-L) Red Star, K.N. Ramachandran suddenly went missing from the Howrah station, after he reached there on Sunday afternoon from Lucknow to participate in a series of political events to express solidarity with the on-going Bhangar land movement. He was abducted by men without uniform, who informed him that they … Read more
Armed with the immense support of the corporate ganglords and their servile media, Mamata Banerjee declared that the Trinamool Congress led West Bengal government will track and hunt down all political activists who were involved in the Bhangar land movement, which resulted in the brutal killing of two villagers by the police force guided by … Read more
Mofijul Khan and Alam Mollah died on Tuesday, 17th January, due to police firing in Bhangar on the agitating villagers, who were since protesting against forcible land acquisition done by the West Bengal government for a project of Powergrid Corporation of India. The villagers were also protesting against the high-tension electric wires passing over their … Read more
Army deployed at several toll tax booths and on important corners of West Bengal on 1st of December, including areas close to the state secretariat, which the Chief Minister called an attempt by the Modi government to bully the democratically elected government of the state for the reluctance of Mamata Banerjee to give any respite to … Read more
The students of Presidency Deemed University of Kolkata staged a massive protest under the left wing student organisations like the SFI and the Independent Consolidation against the maiden visit of the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to the campus. The students protested against the autocratic rule of the VC, Anuradha Lohia, who is working as a … Read more
This article was first published in August 2015 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) Through a 180 degree volte face of her earlier stated position of strong opposition to the Central Government … Read more