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mOdi versus mamata : Battle fOr Bengal

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tional Women’s Day, Mamata
Banerjee held a 4.5-km long
march that started at College
Square and concluded at Dhar-
matala in Kolkata.
Trinamool Congress and
BJP are in loggerheads ahead
of the Assembly polls in West
Bengal. West Bengal Assembly
elections will be held in eight
phases starting from March 27
with the final round of voting
taking place on April 29. The
counting of votes will take place Four Trinamool Congress MLAs, who were denied a ticket for the upcoming assembly elections,
on May 2. joined the BJP, in Kolkata on Monday. (ANI)
In another development, Tri-
namool Congress Parliamenta- requesting them to adjourn the ment from All India Trinamool session,” the TMC MP added.
ry Party Lok Sabha Floor Lead- second part of the Budget ses- Congress would find it difficult It is unlikely that the Parlia-
er Sudip Bandyopadhyay and sion in view of the upcoming to attend the second part of the ment session will be curtailed,
Leader of the TMC Parliamen- Assembly polls in four states Budget session beginning from but a lot of tension-filled dra-
tary Party in Rajya Sabha Derek and one Union Territory. March 8,” Derek O’Brien wrote ma between TMC and BJP and
O’Brien on Monday wrote to “Due to the intensive ongo- in the letter. “We (TMC) urge Mamata and Modi will contin-
Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya ing election preparations in the you to consider the adjourn- ue till May 2, when the results
Sabha Chairman respectively state, the Members of Parlia- ment of the ongoing Parliament come out.

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