Most people in West Bengal are extremely happy for Vande Bharat express.. after 75 years of independence, the road connecting Kolkata and Siliguri is still a mess. We will not let some sons of ba*tards keep the state hostage to them. I have Didi supporting middle class friends who are sharing stories of Vande Bharat express… it doesn’t matter which party they support, middle class Hindu Bengalis want development. But there’s always those want to create mischief. The vote in 2024 should be between bhodrolok

I can understand the hurt caused to the girl’s family but this is beyond ridiculous. When India is at the cusp of sexual revolution, the need of the hour is to have some kind of personal responsibility for one’s own actions. Cheating on someone or having multiple relationships

https://twitter.com/republic/status/1608856272392318979

is not criminal. If they find evidence that the guy coerced her into something or tortured her in other ways, which is ofc a possibility, then he deserves the brickbats. I would have loved to keep quiet on this but just look at it this way. A high profile case like this will turn

It’s coming. They are going to legalise this. It’s going to be under special marriage act. Then a new PIL will be filed where they will ask for recognition within Hindu Marriage act. That will happen too and some bugger here will say that it was there in our shastras vro.

https://twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/status/1595953719530901504

I’ve thought about this and there’s no way we can escape this. While removing section 377 was meant to ensure that these people can live without indignity (which I’m fine with), I’ve realised it has only emboldened the most perverse elements within their fold. This will further

Our good friend Rajarshi Lahiri who has been given a ticket by BJP to contest from Ward no 86 where previously Late Teesta Di was councillor has an interesting bit of history in his family, which is something not many know about. His great grandfather Ananga Mohan Lahiri was A leader in Hindu Mission which later got amalgamated into Hindu Mahasabha. Ananga Mohan Lahiri’s close relative was Ashutosh Lahiri who was deeply influenced by MN Roy and Bagha Jatin and fought bravely in the freedom movement.. then got jailed in Andaman where he got influenced

Can you believe this that even after so many years, there’s not a nice highway which connects Kolkata and Siliguri, the two biggest and strategic cities of West Bengal? The stretch from Ranaghat to Behrampore is absolutely horrible. In 1995, Somnath Chatterjee, then head of WBIDC, proposed to shell out 600 crores for the same, widening the existing NH12. Some problems had arisen coz of land acquisition, then nothing happened. NO DEVELOPMENT.

Your govt putting restrictions on idol size and entry into pandals is not the same thing as desecration of idols in Bangladesh. One is big state chutzpah (something which I rant against on a daily basis) and another is Islamist aggression. Like Jesus get a grip. Matlab BJP ko gaali dena hai, de do bhai. Par samasya ka samadhan hone se raha aisa karke. There needs to be some form of honesty while dealing with the problem in Bangladesh. Bdesh and Pakistan can’t be equated no matter how many hate crimes happen there. And Hasina is an ally.

I have sympathy for Sanjay ji. But I’m very sure majority of those who hail from other states don’t feel like that. Orgs like Bangla pokkho are untouchable and even the ruling party has done nothing for anyone to feel like Sanjay ji has no maan samman.

https://twitter.com/aninbanerjee/status/1404105134032838663

West Bengal is one of the rare states where leaders have to campaign in a different language than the native when they visit some areas. It is only possible here that someone who’s not ethnically Bengali gets elected as councillor, MLA, even Mayor and MP. Hold posts in all

These fuckers can only do all this to the nicer folks. They can only bully those who get affected. Boils my blood to see this.

https://twitter.com/iamkamyabuch/status/1403005051778453509

The quoted tweets of this gives you an idea. Bhadwo ko maalum hai she will not get protection by any set of people. Gaandu lukkhas, all of them.

Congress is disintegrating. I don't think Jitin Prasada was much of a heavyweight but he did ask for some democratic reforms in the party and family loyalists hounded him. Without Congress, nobody can defeat BJP in Center. Don't get me wrong, but democratic reforms in Congress is not the same as in any other party. What it means is Family must choose better people around them. And that is a must. Family had some very efficient people till late 2000s.

Thread on Mukul Roy. Mukul Roy started facing issues with TMC leadership from 2015 itself. He felt that he will be sacrificed at the altar when Sarada and other chit fund scams started getting investigated. He was in touch with certain leaders in BJP. But few Bengal BJP ones were opposing him tooth n nail which included Rahul Sinha, the then observer Siddharth Nath Singh. Things took a real ugly turn when MR reportedly had a face off with nephew. Arun Jaitley, the master politician of BJP back then came to MR’s rescue, cleared the path for him in BJP

Some BJP supporters asking why I am now saying what I’m saying, well Sirs, I have been as much vocal as possible and refused to blindly follow these people. That subjected me to huge abuse from BJP’s own IT Cell getting anonymous accounts with 0 followers at times. Example: this. Reply to a totally unrelated tweet but because I showed dissatisfaction with candidate selection few days back before this.

One big myth being propagated is that women vote differently than men in Bengal and entire women’s vote is swinging more towards TMC which is going to save them etc etc. Total bullshit. There’s no such thing as a separate women’s vote. Infact among women, there are mixed responses, some traditional Con/TMC voters do idolise her, others feel deep seated hatred for her due to various reasons. There’s so symmetry in their thinking.