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  • BJP’s intimidatory tactics won’t work, TMC will in 2026: Abhishek

    BJP’s intimidatory tactics won’t work, TMC will in 2026: Abhishek

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    Kolkata: Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday asserted that more the BJP uses “intimidatory tactics” against West Bengal’s ruling party, the more number of seats it will get in the 2026 assembly polls, as people will resist the saffron camp’s “gameplan”.

    Banerjee, while addressing a rally at Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district, claimed that the Trinamool Congress will win not less than 240 seats in the next assembly elections.

    He also maintained the BJP government at the Centre was intimidating opposition parties through frequent CBI and ED raids.

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    “From 184 seats in 2011 assembly polls, we got 211 seats in 2016. It went up to 213 seats in the 2021 elections. And keep in mind, TMC will not get less than 240 seats in the 2026 polls. The more the BJP’s conspiracy against us grows using its agencies, the more our seats will go up, with people resisting their gameplan,” he said.

    Banerjee recalled that during the 2021 polls, people had ignored the repeated visits by BJP leaders to Bengal and their “audacious display of power”, to vote the TMC to power for the third time.

    “We will not cower due to their (BJP’s) threats unlike other parties. We will hit the streets with more protests,” he said.

    Banerjee also accused the saffron party of withholding the release of Rs 7,500-crore dues to the state, and said he will lead TMC activists to Delhi next month for an “indefinite sit-in to force the Centre to take note of the woes of the people of Bengal”.

    He said in stark contrast to the Centre’s “step-motherly” treatment to Bengal, the state government has spent Rs 3,500 crore under the rural roads housing project, irrespective of whether a region had elected TMC representatives to power in the last panchayat polls.

    “We produce our report card before the people where every electoral promise from Lakshmir Bhandar, Swastha Saathi’, Aikashree’ to Students Credit Card is accounted for. Can the BJP MPs, MLAs and panchayat members show such a report card? I challenge them. They only know to discriminate,” the TMC national general secretary said.

    The Diamond Harbour MP also claimed that while the state government is providing Rs 500 or Rs 1,000 to women under the Lakshmir Bhandar’ scheme, the Narendra Modi government is “extracting Rs 1,000” from citizens for linking Aadhaar with PAN.

    (Except for the headline, the story has not been edited by Siasat staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Jairam dismisses BRS leader’s hunger strike on women’s bill as ‘diversionary tactics’

    Jairam dismisses BRS leader’s hunger strike on women’s bill as ‘diversionary tactics’

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    Hyderabad: AICC General Secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday asked why the Women’s Reservation Bill could not be passed in Lok Sabha over the last nine years despite the BJP having a brute majority.

    He also brushed aside BRS MLC K Kavitha’s hunger strike in support of the bill claiming that the move was an attempt to divert attention from the ED summons issued to her.

    He recalled that the Women’s Reservation Bill was passed in Rajya Sabha in 2010 due to the efforts of Congress which was in power then.

    It was passed in Rajya Sabha first as any bill that is introduced in the Upper House never lapses, he said.

    Ramesh added that the Congress had tried to introduce it in Lok Sabha but there was opposition within UPA.

    The Congress did not have the requisite majority then and the BJP was also reluctant to support on the issue, he alleged.

    “…from 2014, Mr Modi has a brute majority in the Lok Sabha. Now, he does not have to pass it in the Rajya Sabha… It is already passed. TRS (BRS) is supporting him most of the time in Lok Sabha. YSRCP supports him all the time. So, why could the bill not pass in the Lok Sabha in the last nine years,” he said.

    “So, to sit in hunger strike today at Jantar Mantar (in Delhi) to divert from other issues which will become relevant tomorrow, these are all diversionary tactics,” he told reporters when asked about the Congress not attending Kavitha’s hunger strike in support of the bill.

    A day before her scheduled appearance before the Enforcement Directorate in the Delhi excise policy case, Kavitha led a six-hour long hunger strike in Delhi seeking the passage of the bill in the current Budget session of Parliament.

    Ramesh said if the BJP wants to get the bill passed, it can get it done in the Budget session next week, Ramesh said.

    Regarding Telangana, Ramesh listed out ‘panch sutras’ (five elements) for the benefit of farmers in the state and assured that the Congress, if voted to power, would address all grievances related to the ‘Dharani’ (integrated land records management system) portal.

    Congress also promises land surveys in the state in two years if it comes to power, with the objective that the land owner would be the real owner of the land and the land title is conclusive and not presumptive, he said.

    Observing that there are 125 laws related to land and 3,000 Government Orders (GOs) in Telangana over many years, he said Congress would come up with one comprehensive land law which will integrate all the existing 125 land laws and thousands of GOs.

    He said no land will be acquired without the permission of the land owner.

    Congress would also be extending government benefits like crop insurance to nearly 15 lakh tenant farmers in Telangana, he added.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )