Tirthankar Mitra

By Tirthankar Mitra Pakistan seems to be teetering on the edge of an abyss of crisis with none its political parties offering a policy prescription of course correction. Uncertainties abound even as industrial sector contraction is likely to rise, former prime minister Imran Khan despite being bogged down in a number of litigations not asking […]

The post National Elections In Pakistan In October This Year May Not Ensure Stability first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Bairan Biswas, the lone Congress legislator from Sagardighi, Murshidabad, defecting to Trinamool Congress does not send a signal of unity in the coming days. The defection comes just ahead of a crucial meeting of Opposition parties at Patna to set the stage for an anti-BJP front in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. It […]

The post Bengal Congress Making Too Much Noise Over Sole MLA’s Defection To Trinamool first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Self help is the best help. Irked by the West Bengal unit seeking its help on issues big and small, national BJP leaders have asked the state unit to follow this time tested adage, sources in state unit said. But the real reason of the state unit being asked to pull up […]

The post National BJP Leaders Ask Bengal Unit To Take Care Of Party Without Looking To Delhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra It has been many summers since Mamata Banerjee floated Trinamool Congress in 1998, thus leaving the Congress a pale shadow of its former self in West Bengal, and no longer a political force to be reckoned with in the eastern state. However, post Congress’s decisive victory in Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister […]

The post Mamata’s Olive Branch To Congress Has Many Significant Dimensions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Window dressing is going places. It has travelled from the confines of the books of accounts to the ranks of the saffron brigade in West Bengal which have been allegedly inflated to impress the BJP top brass, according to sources in state BJP. But the leaders to impress whom the number of […]

The post Central BJP Leaders Cast Doubt On Bengal Unit’s Organisational Clout first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when hearts beat faster whenever Imran Khan charged in to bowl or looked the way the red ball moving at him as he raised his bat to send it to the ropes or outside the stadium. One does not recall too many occasions when the outstanding all rounder was stumped. […]

The post Former Prime Minister Imran Khan Is On Front Foot In Politics Again first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee’s recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year’s Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk by many among his party faithful; […]

The post Abhishek Banerjee’s Claim On Trinamool Getting 40 Seats In Lok Sabha Is Not A Tall Talk first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away  from  Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief  minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things  are not at all shipshape for the BJP  in […]

The post A Year Before Lok Sabha Polls, BJP Walking On Thin Ice In Manipur first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress leaders were irate on hearing Union home minister Amit Shah’s call to his party activists to ensure victory from 35 constituencies in Lok Sabha elections next year and usher in a BJP government in 2025. But had these Trinamool leaders taken a little pause and watched Shah’s subsequent words, the […]

The post Amit Shah’s Claim Of 35 Lok Sabha Seats In Bengal In 2024 Poll, Is Meant To Soar Up Sagging Morale Of State BJP first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge is walking a tightrope in trying to amicably resolve an intra-party feud between veteran Ashok Gehlot and young Turk Sachin Pilot in  Rajasthan. Working out a compromise formula by Kharge seems to be asking for the moon as both the feuding  leaders seem to possess a winner takes […]

The post Congress Leadership Must Act Fast To Bridge Gehlot-Pilot Differences first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Any activist and leader of West Bengal unit of CPI(M) will face strong disciplinary action in the event of any understanding with BJP in the panchayat elections The riot act being read out at the recently concluded state committee meeting of the CPI(M) is a clear pointer to the growing murmurs in […]

The post CPI(M) Bengal Leadership Faces A Big Dilemma Over Strategy In Panchayat Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra No stranger to intra-party squabbles, BJP leaders of West Bengal unit have often differed over internal matters of the party. But fissures are now discernible in the state saffron camp leadership over actions of governor, CV Anand Bose in the recent communal violence which erupted in the state. Disagreement between leader of […]

The post Differences Surface In Bengal BJP Over Functioning Of Governor Bose first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Confusion is setting in among a section of Trinamool Congress activists at the double face of the leadership towards scam tainted leaders even as party supremo Mamata Banerjee have asked them not to despair. They should walk along puffing up their chests, she further advised. The barrage of criticism can be sourced […]

The post Mamata’s Selective Action Against Scam Accused Confuses TMC Activists first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal seems to be in a minefield of troubles after sweeping to power in the summer of 2021 for the third time in succession. Now, it is confronted with the demand to hold students union elections, which comes in the wake of the cash-for-teaching-jobs scam, which […]

The post TMC Govt Under Pressure To Hold Student Union Election first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The victory of Congress Left combine at Sagardighi constituency by poll in West Bengal lets the seven year old poll alliance taste electoral success after a long time. For after 2021 Assembly election debacle, bitter taste of failure was its constant companion. The results of Sagardighi has triggered the ringing of alarm […]

The post Shifting Of Muslim Votes To Congress At Sagardighi Bypoll Is Alarming For Trinamool first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra West Bengal unit of BJP finds itself between a rock and a hard place over the renewal of separate statehood demand of some of its north Bengal legislators. Trinamool Congress may not find this. emotive issue of another partition issue a handy tool to berate the saffron camp in the panchayat polls […]

The post North Bengal BJP Legislators Demand For Separate State Is A Political Boon For Trinamool first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Come February 27, Meghalaya will witness a curious electoral battle. Erstwhile allies are taking on each other and possibility of horse trading run high after the results are announced on March 2. Other curiosities mark the Assembly election in the “Abode of the Clouds”. Espousing divergent political ideologies, Union home minister, Amit […]

The post BJP Is Facing Big Hurdles In Its Campaigning In Meghalaya Poll Against Its Ruling Partner first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Even as Nagaland goes to the state assembly election on February 27, with an eye on the polls, BJP has unfolded its game plan to pre-empt trouble in its sensitive area- eastern Nagaland. Party president, JP Nadda made some promises for its development while releasing the election manifesto. The reason of giving […]

The post With An Eye On Polls, BJP Giving Special Emphasis On Eastern Nagaland first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Even after Pradyot Kishor Manikya Debbarma, chief of the most powerful party of the tribals in Tripura Tipra Motha (TM) sought to carve out a separate state from Tripura, none of the leaders of the major political parties contesting the state Assembly elections have dared to label him a separatist. For the […]

The post All Indications Suggest A Hung Assembly In Tripura With Tm Playing A Key Role first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra “If they answer not your call, walk alone, walk alone” one of Rabindranath Tagore’s great poems, set to music used to be one of the favourite songs of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the most famous Congressman to don khadi. If the charismatic prophet of  non-violence sang it in many a trying times, another […]

The post Congress Should Not Have Excluded Any Non-BJP Party From January 30 Programme first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra India will witness a slew of elections in 2023 together with the answer to the so far unanswered question whether Rahul Gandhi can rediscover leadership initiative in search of which he has failed and faltered in the last eight years of Narendra Modi’s rule For 2023 is dotted with elections which inarguably […]

The post State Assembly Elections In 2023 Will Prove Rahul Gandhi’s Mass Acceptance first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra West Bengal CPI(M) is in a bind following a considerable section of its rank and file cosying up to their BJP counterparts. The reason is neither an ideological meltdown or desertion for fished or loaves but a desire for survival in the face of apparently overwhelming onslaught of Trinamool Congress activists. A […]

The post Bengal CPI(M) Is In A Bind As Rural Cadres Increasingly Work With BJP Against Trinamool first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra With panchayat elections inching closer, West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party received a wakeup call. For all the sound and fury spouted by the state saffron camp leaders, the organisational strength of the state BJP is nowhere in a state to give ruling Trinamool Congress a run for its money in […]

The post Bengal BJP Not In A Position To Man Fully All Booths In 2023 Rural Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra After having found itself sans a single legislator in the West Bengal Assembly, the Congress seeks to draw Left to its side during a march from Ganga Sagar to Kurseong hills. Though the Left is in the same boat as the Congress as the representation of the former is also nil in […]

The post Bengal Congress Eager For Left Front Participation In Its Yatra first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra The West Bengal BJP is at crossroads over its interaction with new governor CV Anand Bose after leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari and state unit chief, Sukanta Majumdar boycotted the swearing in ceremony of the governor on November 23 claiming they were not given seats of honour in keeping with their […]

The post Bengal BJP‘s Woes Mounting As New Governor May Be Different From Dhankar first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Even as panchayat election is inching closer, north Bengal is in the news for the wrong reasons.  The demand for a separate state or Union Territory has resurfaced. The present scenario, however, differs from the one which arose last year when BJP MP John Barla and MLAs Anandamoy Barman and Sikha Chatterjee […]

The post BJP Is In Covert Collusion With Separatists For Division Of North Bengal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Inclusion of yesteryear Bollywood super star, Mithun Chakraborty in BJP’s core committee for West Bengal appears to be a political gamble by saffron camp leaders to stop Trinamool Congress juggernaut in the panchayat polls next year. In the backdrop of a faction riven party structure which is on a backfoot in the […]

The post Bengal BJP Is Desperate In Getting Out Of Present Mess Before Panchayat Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra When chief minister, Mamata Banerjee said that it was CPI-M and not she who drove away the Tatas from Singur small car project, it was no throwaway remark. Twin hidden agenda lay in it which include diverting the Opposition criticism from issues troubling her dispensation together with an eye on votes in […]

The post Mamata’s Sudden Remarks On Blaming CPI(M) For Tata’s Exit From Singur Are Planned first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra Questions outnumber answers in the tragic death of eight persons in a flash flood in Mal river in North Bengal recently. Even as the Opposition is crying itself hoarse that a “temporary barrage” allegedly in aid of the sand mafia led to the tragedy, the theory floated by some of the Trinamool […]

The post Death Of Eight Persons During Flash Floods In Mal River In Bengal Poses Many Questions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Tirthankar Mitra At the risk of sounding florid, the economy of West Bengal can be stated to be placed between a rock and a hard place. For claims shouted from  the rooftops about its job generation fall flat on their faces at the sight of the faces of the  aspirants who are part of […]

The post Employment Scenario In Bengal Is Still Precarious Despite Tall Claims By State Govt first appeared on IPA Newspack.