Santanu Chowdhury

The Assembly seat in Uttar Dinajpur district, bordering Bangladesh, has been a Congress stronghold. But after the BJP won Raiganj Lok Sabha seat in May 2019, no one doubted the BJP’s fair chance to register an upset in this Assembly segment that has 70 per cent Hindu population.

“The TMC has always been saying that it is their seat. They have proved today why it is their seat. You have all seen what happened on the polling day. Even I was not spared. TMC with the help of goons and police made a farce of the bypoll,” said BJP’s Joy Prakash Majumdar.

Two of the BJP candidates blamed a “scare” over NRC, and said the party had failed to explain the issue to the people.

The decimation of the Left Front and Congress, which fought the bypolls in an alliance, seems to have worked in the TMC's favour. Many believe that the bulk of the Left-Congress vote went to the Trinamool.

West Bengal Bye-Election Results 2019: In the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had won 18 seats from 2 seats in 2014 while the TMC won 22 seats from 34 seats in 2014. However, within six months from the general election, the BJP failed to repeat its electoral success.

Mamata Banerjee's move comes amid the Centre’s attempt to pass the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament.

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Additional Chief Secretary of the state's IT department, Debashis Sen, said that the state government would tie-up with private companies and form joint ventures to come up such facilities.

Many residents are worried over the loss of important documents.

Ten years ago, he had lost his mud house and about 100 cottah land in cyclone Aila, which wrecked havoc in South 24 Parganas district in 2009, killing 149 people in the state.

A majority of the faculty, students and staff opposed the move, that followed a request by Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty to the HRD for CISF security.

The BSF is also hopeful that the fisherman, who had strayed into the Bangladesh side of river Padma, would be released in a day or two.

"A state government looks after policy implementation. NRC was held in Assam as it was a part of Assam Accord and there is a BJP government there. But here, we run the government," Mamata Banerjee said.

Under the assured income component, as many as 37,74,445 farmers had received Rs 478.37 crore till September 9. The state had got a total of 40,22,354 applications in this period.

Pranab was one of the three fishermen who were apprehended by the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel on October 17, after they reportedly strayed into the Bangladesh side of the Padma river.

The incident led to a flag meeting on Thursday, during which a BSF jawan, Vijay Bhan Singh, was killed and another injured after the BGB opened fire.

The Padma hilsa swims several kilometres upstream to spawn in freshwater around this time, and returns to salty water afterwards.

A protest was held at the college — The Heritage Academy — on Thursday demanding strong action against Sudipto Chatterjee, who taught film and theatre to media science students.

Banerjee is the third Bengali after Rabindranath Tagore and Amartya Sen to win the Nobel, and the second after Sen to receive the recognition in Economic Sciences.