1. Mamata Banerjee In ‘Parallel Rule’ Protest
Mamata Banerjee on Sunday accused the BJP of running a parallel administration in Bengal by sending retired officers from Delhi to help the party win poll.
The chief minister’s comments have come a day after special observer Ajay V Naik alleged the situation in Bengal at present was similar to that of Bihar “10-15 years ago”.
Addressing an election rally in Nadia’s Gayeshpur, the Trinamool Congress supremo alleged that the retired officers had been “abusing Bengal and humiliating its officers by removing them as per their whims with an agenda to help the BJP”.
Trinamool has already lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against Naik, accusing him of being politically biased and demanding his removal.
(Source: The Telegraph)
2. ‘Dadar Police’ For Polls: Dilip Ghosh
Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said “Dadar police” from New Delhi would man polling booths and “we are ready with bamboo sticks” to tackle rigging of the polls.
Ghosh issued the threat while addressing a rally here to campaign for the BJP’s Birbhum Lok Sabha candidate, Doodh Kumar Mondal.
“This is not the panchayat election. This is the parliament election. We will not allow Didir police at booths. Dadar police will come from Delhi to guard the booths and conduct the polls. Tell the villagers that there will be policemen from Delhi at the booths and BJP workers as well.”
(Source: The Telegraph)
3. A Different Poll Adda: CPM Candidate Bonds With LGBTQI Community
A large part of the CPM poll manifesto deals with rights of transgender people and how the party aims to give them the place they deserve in the society. The party candidate from Kolkata North, Koninika Bose, spent the Sunday afternoon bonding with members of the community, trying to understand their worries and demands.
Prominent members of the LGBTQI community and activists like Ranjita Sinha, Malabika, Abir, Bappaditya Mukherjee, Ishita Mukherjee and Nibabari Banerjee were present at the adda. Mukherjee, a faculty member of Calcutta University, has been pressing for transgender rights for decades.
(Source: The Times Of India)
4. MLA Jitendra Kumar Tiwari’s Temple Message
Asansol mayor and Trinamool MLA Jitendra Kumar Tiwari has said he will inaugurate a Ram temple in his Pandaveswar constituency on 23 April, the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a campaign rally for the BJP here.
“I will inaugurate the Ram temple on 23 April to send him (prime minister) and the local people a message that we do not make false promises of building temples for political gains. We just do it,” said Tiwari.
(Source: The Telegraph)
5. Original Sketches Of Goopy Bagha To Be On Display
It has been a mystery to fans exactly how Satyajit Ray brought to life his grandfather Upendrakishore Roychowdhury’s Goopy and Bagha on screen. From the props to the clothes, from the expressions to the make up, fans have wanted to know how Ray recreated them for the audio-visual medium. All that will be uncovered at the weeklong exhibition planned on Goopy Bagha by the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives at Gaganendra Shilpa Pradarshashala from 27 to 30 April.
There were illustrations that Upendrakishore drew for the original story, but those weren’t enough to bring the characters to life on film. So Ray started an all new kheror khata to sketch the concept. It was a long process and the sketches evolved with the master to arrive at what we see on film.
(Source: The Times Of India)
6. Class-IX Student Fakes Abduction, Demands Rs 15L
A Class-IX student of an English-medium school in Howrah was arrested along with his maternal uncle on Sunday morning for faking his own abduction and trying to extort money from his parents.
The 15-year-old boy had gone missing from his central Kolkata one-room chawl last Sunday. Soon after, his phone got switched off and he did not return to his house. His mother and her neighbours carried out an extensive search in all possible places. On Monday, his mother lodged a missing complaint and hours later she received a call from his phone, where an unknown caller said he was kidnapped and the asked for a ransom of Rs 30 lakh.
(Source: The Times Of India)
7. Salt Lake Youth Sets Self Afire ‘To Meet Dead Mom’
A 28-year-old youth who was suffering from depression and had tried to commit suicide last year, died after he allegedly set himself on fire at his Salt Lake home early on Sunday. A suicide note was recovered from the room where he had written that he was on his way to meet his mother.
Police said Adhip Mukherjee used to live with his uncle and aunt at his BF Block home and had been suffering from depression ever since he saw his mother die in front of him in a road accident at Hyderabad in 2016. Mukherjee was also very close to his father, who died of a heart attack when he was studying in Class VI.
(Source: The Times Of India)
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