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Lok Sabha

Consensus needed for parliamentary functioning

The just-concluded Winter Session of Parliament was unproductive and the least effective in over a year. It ran from November 25 to December 20 and saw frequent disruptions, including protests and arguments.

Industrialization key word in Hooghly as contestants fight it out

The TMC Hooghly LS candidate Rachna Banerjee, while answering to the media about the industrialization and agricultural prospects in Singur, failed to come out with a satisfactory answer, when she replied, “While I was travelling up to Singur I saw thick smoke coming out of so many factory chimneys, proving the existence of so many factories there.”

At What Cost?

The manifesto is blissfully silent about the means of financing the costs of its promises, leaving the only option of high fiscal deficits (FD) and consequent heavy borrowing, though it makes a vague promise, without any roadmap, to double the GDP growth in the next 10 years ~ the underlying assumption being that the growth will find the necessary resources.