Dasgupta resigned from Rajya Sabha in March after Trinamool Congress said it has decided to move a disqualification notice against him for “violating the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution”, after the BJP gave him ticket to contest the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections.
Bengal Assembly Election Result 2021 | Tarakeshwar constituency: BJP’s Swapan Dasgupta was up against Trinamool’s Ramendu Sinharay in this electoral battle.
In a detailed interview to Moneycontrol, Swapan Dasgupta talks about stagnation in West Bengal and why he thinks the BJP is best suited to jumpstart the state's economy.
The resignation comes after Swapan Dasgupta was named as a BJP candidate for the West Bengal assembly elections.
Kamath, a veteran banker, has been the Chairman of ICICI Bank and Infosys. Dasgupta, a right-wing ideologue, is a BJP MP in the Rajya Sabha
Justifying their actions, a leader of Visva Bharati’s SFI unit said they will not allow anyone who “promote hatred” inside the varsity campus.
S Kulkarni, political analyst, said that that best thing now is to bring out whatever facts or figures that were not disseminated and have an objective debate on it. Ajoy Bose, resident commentator, also agreed that the PM now owes it to the country to reveal what went before.
Eminent writer Patrick French who is well versed in Indian politics feels that victorious opposition parties stalling Parliament may not go down well with the people. He said, “people won‘t say good, if they stall Parliament. It increases people‘s frustrations with the government. Hope, they won‘t."
Noted educationist and freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya was on Monday posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna, country's highest civilian award, by President Pranab Mukherjee.