Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Row over destruction of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar bust: BJP has been using West Bengal's icons to chip away TMC's sway

At BJP chief Amit Shah's mega rally in Kolkata on Tuesday, clashes broke out and the police had to intervene.

Battle for Bengal: Mamata terms Modi 'fascist', 'torturer' at Kolkata roadshow; PM says state not TMC chief's fiefdom

While Mamata Banerjee said that Narendra Modi should 'do sit-ups' for 'destroying' West Bengal's heritage, the prime minister said that state is 'not the private fiefdom' of the TMC chief

LS polls: Mamata takes politics of grievance too far in West Bengal, allows Modi and Shah to turn tables

Mamata Banerjee seems to be taking her politics of grievance a bit too far.

Narendra Modi vows to install grand statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Kolkata, blames ‘TMC goondas’ for vandalism

Narendra Modi said his government was committed towards Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's vision and promised to install his grand statue at the same spot in Kolkata where it was vandalised

Election Commission's decision to use Article 324 in West Bengal severe indictment of Mamata Banerjee's rule

Mamata Banerjee's extraordinary tirade against the Election Commission of India on Wednesday night is just one more indication of her callous disregard for the Constitution and its provisions. West Bengal has been suffering from this disease since the Left Front regime but under Mamata's Trinamool Congress it has mutated into a more virulent strain. In fact, the only quibble with the ECI's decision is that it is a tad too lenient on a chief minister who openly threatens to take 'inch by inch revenge' against political rivals.

EC invokes Article 324 in West Bengal: Legal precedents show Mamata Banerjee's allegations against election body ill-founded

In Independent India, Election Commission has time and again asserted its power to ensure this impartiality and what it did in West Bengal was part of its core responsibility. Mamata Banerjee's targeting of ECI on this ground is completely ill-founded as constitutional provisions, landmark judgments and legal precedents are all in favour of the election watchdog

TMC-BJP violence: As Mamata promises revenge for Vidyasagar episode, Kolkata Police's failure to prevent conflict raises eyebrows

That the Kolkata Police had information beforehand about a possible TMC-BJP conflict in College Street where Vidyasagar's statue was smashed and yet took no action to prevent it has raised eyebrows over the police's role in the 14 May violence in Kolkata

Bengal votes: BJP, TMC will spin Vidyasagar episode to suit their needs even as EC decides to end poll campaign early

TMC' strategy in West Bengal has been to pin BJP down as a trouble-making outside force, and now that the Vidyasagar statue vandalism incident has landed in Mamata Banerjee's lap, she will use it to drive the point home as forcefully as she can

Lok Sabha polls: Chronic political violence in West Bengal allows Modi, Shah to craft narrative against Mamata, TMC

Tuesday’s incident has given BJP an opportunity to amplify the narrative that ‘Bengal is burning and needs to be saved’ across India.

TMC-BJP violence in Kolkata: Why is Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar so important to Mamata? It's Bengal identity politics at play

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, like Subhash Chandra Bose and Rabindra Nath Tagore, is a tall figure in the history of Bengal and is the symbol of Bengali pride and Mamata and her party members did not waste any time to push the nativity line after the attacks were reported on Tuesday.