‘Will provide a clear roadmap’
Gaurav Gogoi, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a Congress Member of Parliament from the Jorhat constituency in Assam has emerged as a pivotal figure in Assam's political landscape.
Gaurav Gogoi, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and a Congress Member of Parliament from the Jorhat constituency in Assam has emerged as a pivotal figure in Assam's political landscape.
Senior TMC leader and Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia speaks with Manas R Bannerjee about the current unrest in Bangladesh and its implications for Indian national security, particularly on the sensitive IndoBangladesh border.
Ujjwal Raman Singh is credited with ending the 40- year-long political drought of the Congress in the Allahabad Lok Sabha seat in the Lok Sabha polls held this year.
In an exclusive interaction with Surya S Pillai of The Statesman, the acclaimed artist opens up about her journey into the world of dance, the current crop of young dancers and the pathetic state of art education in the country.
Padma Shri Geeta Chandran is synonymous with Bharatanatyam, the classical dance she has practised for decades since her journey began at the age of five under the tutelage of her first guru, Swarna Saraswati.
We have taken a conscious decision to spread our party outside Bengal. We are already advancing in that direction. We have made footprints in Meghalaya, Tripura and Goa and also in Haryana. So we are advancing.
"Due to the pressure maintained by us, nearly 3,000 cases under the NDPS Act have been registered in the past three years and more than 900 peddlers arrested. The police in Jammu district arrested more than 500 peddlers during 2019"
We are disappointed by the role played by the Election Commission as no action was taken on our complaints since the body is expected to act impartially. However, we won the elections as people’s mandate was with us which contributed to defeating the money power of the ruling party
Since 1966, all major political parties have ‘used’ the SC community as political pawns by promising freebies and selling lofty dreams. Never could any party envisage a SC as their party leader to guide the state because of the inherent casteism prevalent both overtly and implicitly.
I think these election results will definitely play a vital role in the future for the Congress party. The party has not been doing well in other states; we have lost many states and elections. Now the people want to make a new beginning, starting from Himachal Pradesh. These elections will lend an impetus to the Congress party ahead of the coming Assembly elections next year.
