MISSING: CIVILITY IN DISCOURSE

In 2004, the party, however, got a breakthrough in Meghalaya when former Lok Sabha speaker PA Sangma, who had left the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), won from Tura Lok Sabha constituency. This success, was however, short-lived, as Sangma returned to the NCP the very next year. It may be recalled that in 2012, the TMC emerged as the main opposition in Manipur, winning seven seats, with a 17 per cent vote share. However, all this had turned sour when all the MLAs subsequently left the party to join either the Congress or the BJP.

The party’s Tripura unit opened in 1999, a year after the party was initiated in West Bengal, with former Tripura chief minister, Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, heading the state unit. Though Majumdar did not win the Lok Sabha in 1999 from Tripura West sear, he overtook the Congress in terms of the rural polls,” he said.

The BJP’s campaign comes at a time when the party looks to tone up its organisational machinery in West Bengal ahead of the panchayat elections, which has seen internal squabbles and defections in the party since the

Tussles between elected governments of opposition parties and BJP-appointed state governors have become an almost routine affair. Therefore there was nothing new in the spat between Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit and Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann over the convening of Assembly session until the matter reached the Supreme Court which gave both a lesson in their constitutional obligations.

The contention of the government was that the governor was not heeding its advice on summoning the session. The governor pointed to the chief minister’s “extremely derogatory and patently unconstitutional votes polled. But TMC’s Mission Tripura, the only Bengali-majority state in the region, came to a jolting halt in 2002 when Majumdar returned to the Congress. However, its fortunes in Tripura remain dismal despite its attempts to revive its campaign in 2016 and 2021. The Left–Congress alliance and the rise of the TIPRA Motha in tribal-dominated areas have effectively turned the election into a triangular contest between the BJP, the Left-Congress and the TIPRA

2021 assembly poll results. Several senior leaders are engaged in feuds off and on social media, leaving little time for the actual growth of the party especially in the state.

The state unit of the BJP has been fighting hard to keep its flock together especially

There was nothing new in the spat between Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit & CM Bhagwant Mann over the convening of Assembly session until the matter reached the Supreme Court, which gave both a lesson in their constitutional obligations tweets” as reason for not convening the Budget session on March 3. The Punjab government moved the Supreme Court for necessary directions to the governor who after former union minister Babul Supriyo, party MP Arjun Singh and six legislators, including its national vice president Mukul Roy, switched to the TMC since the assembly poll results in 2021.

Motha. Despite Mamata Banerjee and other party leaders having entered the campaign, the TMC has not quite made it in big terms. Meanwhile, political analysts feel the Left–Congress combine would be the automatic choice for anti-BJP voters in areas where the Motha doesn’t have an impact. The TMC also could not do much to build on the local leadership. All eyes are now on March 2 when the results will be out and the real picture will be revealed.

THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL wanted to seek legal advice on Mann’s tweets.

Moving a petition under Article 32 the state government appealed to the court to issue a declaration that the governor was bound to act on the aid and advice of the council of ministers. This is not something the Supreme Court should be telling a governor as the Constitution is clear on his role. That is what the Supreme Court bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud said, “However inappropriate the tweet of the CM may be, the Assembly session cannot be delayed.” The governor was bound by aid and advice of the government. At the same time the court also pointed to the need for more civil discourse between constitutional functionaries.

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Bible

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