From Park Street to Durgapur, Banerjee’s statements have often sparked outrage for shifting blame onto victims rather than addressing systemic failures in policing and women’s safety in West Bengal.
The slogan was first introduced as a light-hearted taunt for the BJP. But it soon became a battle cry that was accompanied by violence and political mayhem in the state.
Across the city, 3,000-odd puja pandals were submerged. The IMD also warned that another low-pressure system may form over the Bay of Bengal around 25th September.
Punjab and West Bengal fall into the category of 11 States that are using borrowed funds to finance routine expenditure, such as salaries, subsidies, and administrative costs instead of creating assets.
At a time when identity politics in the Northeast is repeatedly stirred for partisan gains, Sarma’s words offered a counter-narrative of Hindu civilizational unity, rejecting the manufactured binary of Assamese versus Bengali.
Kolkata Police arrested Chandan Malik in the gang-rape of a 20-year-old woman in Haridevpur. The victim was lured to a ‘birthday party’ on 5th September.
Accused Debangshu Biswas is a Trinamool Congress worker. Coincidentally, he is a revenue inspector with the land reforms department of the Mamata-led West Bengal government.