Archive for April, 2009

War of words again on West Bengal – Hindu

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

SINDH TODAY

War of words again on West Bengal
Hindu, India
NEW DELHI: The war of words between the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) over the Left Front government's track record in West Bengal entered the second round on Friday with the Congress coming out with another report card on the
Buddhadeb expresses confidence of ‘Third Front' forming government Thaindian.com
A CPM prime minister would be a great idea Daily News & Analysis
Left plays Cong card to split Opposition Calcutta Telegraph
MyNews.in – Press Trust of India
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Pre-poll sneak peak into arms bazaar – Blindfold ride throws up gun politics (The Telegraph)

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Raiganj, April 23: An arms selling racket is active in North Dinajpur, thanks to political parties which want to be well-equipped before the elections and are acquiring weapons through criminals who are on their payroll.

Independent seeks revenge on Deepa – The Statesman

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Independent seeks revenge on Deepa
The Statesman, India
RAIGANJ, April 22: The breakaway Trinamul leader, now an Independent candidate from the Raiganj Lok Sabha constituency, Mr Abdul Karim Chaudhury, could throw a spanner in the Congress works. Mr Chaudhury is making no bones about his mission to defeat

Central forces not enough… – The Statesman

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Calcutta Telegraph

Central forces not enough…
The Statesman, India
RAIGANJ , April 22 : The Central force which North Dinajpur district will receive from the state election department will reportedly not be large enough to monitor all critical booths. It was learnt that in North Dinajpur a total of 211 booths were
Pre-poll sneak peak into arms bazaar Calcutta Telegraph
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Blood bank dries up – The Statesman

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Blood bank dries up
The Statesman, India
RAIGANJ, April 22: The blood bank in Raiganj District Hospital has almost dried up, forcing the hospital authorities to defer surgical cases. According to a staff member of the hospital's blood bank, Mr Brajen Chakraborty, the bank does not have any

Truck full of electric poles for bribing voters seized – The Statesman

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Truck full of electric poles for bribing voters seized
The Statesman, India
The secretary of the CPI-M Zonal Committee of Kaliyaganj, Mr Bharatendu Chaudhury, said: "If measures are not taken against the Congress members for violating the Moral Code of Conduct we will organize a movement against the district administration.

The Dreaded D-word Delimitation is the biggest unknown in this Bengal election (The Telegraph)

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Land isn’t the only imponderable this election in Bengal; so is delimitation which has changed the voter demography in some former Left or Opposition bastions.

The Dreaded D-word – Calcutta Telegraph

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Calcutta Telegraph

The Dreaded D-word
Calcutta Telegraph, India
If delimitation has pepped up Congress candidate Subrata Mukherjee in Bankura, it has added creases to the brow of party colleague Deepa Das Munshi, wife of the ailing Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, in Raiganj. Her rival Bireswar Lahiri said: “Assembly

Chaos mars election deployment – The Statesman

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Chaos mars election deployment
The Statesman, India
RAIGANJ, April 24 : Polling personnel of North Dinajpur district left their training centres this afternoon and blocked two spots on NS Road in Raiganj for hours, in protest against their mismanagement by the district election department.
Raised home guards to assist police for peaceful polls The Statesman
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Parties make an intelligent call – The Statesman

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Parties make an intelligent call
The Statesman, India
RAIGANJ, April 20: With victory on their mind, both CPI-M and Congress have called on intellectuals to vote for them in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections. Earlier in the day, the secretary of the state committee of Ganatantrik Lekhak Shilpi Sangha,