New Delhi, January 8 (IANS) West Bengal elections have largely seen a direct contest between two opposing political parties at the hustings, whether Parliamentary or Assembly, which is again being anticipated for 2026, despite a confident Congress and Left, or the rise of regional satraps. A third force has always been present in state politics, yet there has been more of a two-way fight for power. Through time, the Trinamool Congress replaced its alma mater, the Congress, in challenging the mig…
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Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) A political alliance based on religious tenets, as called by former Trinamool Congress MLA and builder of a Babri Masjid replica in West Bengal, Humayun Kabir, may cost West Bengal’s ruling party dearly in Muslim-dominated Assembly seats next year – as Bihar’s Seemanchal experience shows. Kabir’s unabashed proposal for the consolidation of Muslim votes will prompt a polarisation, which may even favour West Bengal’s principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),…
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Indian Secular Front (ISF) chairman Nawsad Siddiqui on Sunday clarified that no discussions have taken place regarding an electoral alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress leader Humayun Kabir’s newly-launched Janata Unnayan Party (JUP). The comments came a day after Kabir said that he wanted to enter into an electoral alliance with ISF for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.Incidentally, Siddiqui visited the CPI(M) headquarters in Kolkata on Saturday and inter…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) Suspended Trinamool Congress leader and Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir on Saturday said that his newly-launched Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) will contest 182 seats in the West Bengal Assembly elections. He further expressed his desire to form an electoral alliance with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. However, the ISF has not yet issued any statement regarding an alliance with Humayun Kabir’s party.Earlier, Kabir had said that his party would contest…