By Rahil Nora Chopra
Mamata Banerjee wants Bengal to have technology hubs on the pattern of Bengaluru and Hyderabad. She has just inaugurated the Silicon Valley in Rajrahat area near Kolkata in which Infosys and Reliance Jio have already announced huge investments. The technology hub is expected to create a large number of jobs for Bengalis. In her speech at the inauguration, she attacked the central government on the issue of NRC and pointed out that among the 40 Lakh people left out from the NRC list 25 lakh were Bengali Hindus and about 13 lakh Bengali Muslims. She claimed that at this rate one day the central government will stop Hilsa fish and Jamdani sari imported from Bangladesh. The key thrust of her campaign is that the BJP is against Bengal.
NITISH’S SHELTER HOME WOES HAVE NO END
Just as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar thought he would get peace of mind by ordering a CBI inquiry into Muzaffarpur girls shelter home incident and leave behind his relationship with Bragesh Thakur, the main accused in the episode, he has been shaken by another similar incident in Patna where four women were missing from a shelter home for mentally retarded women. The incharge of shelter home, Manisha Dayal, is supposed to have good relations with many state ministers and bureaucrats. The chief minister immediately announced a police enquiry, following which two women have come back to the shelter home; the remaining two are still missing. Political sources say the police is helpless in the investigation as the man running the shelter is well-connected. Nitish is now worried that his image would get sullied in the opposition attacks and, therefore, he has ordered an inquiry into the affairs of all shelter homes in the state.
UTTARAKHAND CONGRESS INFIGHTING SEES NO LET-UP
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has elevated Harish Rawat to make him general secretary and Congress Working Committee (CWC) member, thinking that his group will stop interfering in the work of the Uttarakhand Congress. But the expectations have been belied as his followers continue to work against state party president Pritam Singh and Indira Hirdesh, the opposition leader in the Vidhan Sabha. Govind Singh Kunjwal, the former Vidhan Sabha speaker and close confident of Harish Rawat, is openly opposing Pritam Singh openly after the reorganisation of the district units from which Rawat’s supporters have been omitted. They are now burning the effigy of state party president in the different districts and threatening the formation of parallel district committees.
RAJASTHAN CONGRESS HIT BY COMPLACENCY
In spite of the huge crowds in Vasundhra Raje’s Gaurav Yatra, election surveys and the satta bazaar are predicting a win for Congress in the Rajasthan assembly elections. The BJP leaders on the other hand are trying to boost the morale of party workers by declaring that the BJP will come back to power. While the assertion may sound far-fetched at the moment, the Gaurav yatra has succeeded in reducing infighting among party workers. Observers feel the Congress camp might suffer the consequences of complacency as the party is convinced that it is set to capture power. (IPA)
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