BJP leaders dishonoured people’s verdict, thrust bypoll on them by quitting as MLAs: TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee
The Hindu
He also asserted that his party will make a “4-0 sweep” in the byelections.
Trinamool Congress national General Secretary on Saturday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for “thrusting byelection” on two of the four assembly seats in the state that will go to polls on October 30.
Addressing a rally at Gosaba in South 24 Parganas, Mr. Banerjee pointed out that byelection was necessitated here and in Khardah following the death of two TMC candidates, but the circumstance under which elections are being held in Shantipur and Dinhata are different.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












