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Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee are scheduled to address back-to-back Lok Sabha campaign rallies on Thursday at Cooch Behar in north Bengal, a region where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made maximum electoral gains since the 2019 elections.o)..
North Bengals Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri seats, all named after the three districts where they are located, are going to the polls on April 19 in the first of the seven phases Bengal will witness..
Although the BJP could win only 77 of Bengals 294 assembly seats in the 2021 polls, against 213 grabbed by the TMC, it still managed to bag 30 of the 54 seats in the eight north Bengal districts..
Banerjee is touring the north Bengal districts and meeting voters since Sunday when she hurriedly took a chartered flight within hours of norwesters hitting parts of the region..
Preparing the ground for a political confrontation, the chief ministers nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee targeted the prime minister on Wednesday for the Centres decision to stop funds for housing projects for the poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) citing irregularities in implementation..
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