 "Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 'Nari Shakti Vandan Abhinandan' programme, at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district (PTI Photo)")
Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout the ‘Nari Shakti Vandan Abhinandan’ programme, at Barasat in North 24 Parganas district (PTI Picture)
The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP), after successful 18 seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha election in West Bengal, couldn’t replicate its success within the Meeting polls two years later, with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) securing 48.02 per cent of the vote to the BJP’s 37.97 per cent.
Put up-poll research attributed the surge in help for the TMC to extra girls, particularly poorer girls, voting for it.
On Wednesday, the battle for West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats was renewed. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an “all girls” public assembly of the BJP’s Mahila Morcha in Barasat (80 km from Sandeshkhali), North 24 Parganas. He accused the West Bengal authorities of utilizing all its may to avoid wasting the “oppressor of ladies”, a reference to suspended TMC chief Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan. Modi stated the storm in Sandeshkhali would attain each nook of the state, and likewise met the alleged victims of Sandeshkhali. “For me, the moms and sisters of Bengal rise like Goddess Durga,” he stated.
The TMC management responded in like method. Within the morning, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced her authorities would enhance by Rs 750 the allowance for the state’s ASHA (accredited social well being activists) and aanganwadi staff.
TMC Rajya Sabha member-elect Sagarika Ghose stated the BJP ought to “be taught from the Bengal mannequin of feminine empowerment”, and identified that the occasion insulted Bengali girls by fielding in Asansol Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh, whose songs “denigrate” Bengali girls.
The BJP withdrew Singh’s candidature after the outrage.
The Trinamool accused the BJP of failing to guard the dignity of ladies in Manipur, of garlanding the rapists of Bilkis Bano, and never taking motion in opposition to its Lok Sabha member Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Later within the day, Banerjee urged individuals to hitch her at a public assembly in Kolkata on Sunday to guard “Bengal’s tradition”, its non secular concord and lifestyle from bohiragoto (the outsiders) and “apasanskriti”.
Within the 2021 Meeting polls, Banerjee-led Trinamool defeated the BJP along with her “distinctive attraction to ethno-cultural feelings as banglar meye (daughter of Bengal) or didi ke bolo (discuss to Didi) programmes as in opposition to bohiragoto (the outsiders), in accordance with academician Kaberi Chakrabarti.
In line with CSDS-Lokniti, extra males (41 per cent) voted for the BJP than for Trinamool (40 per cent) within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Nonetheless, 47 per cent of ladies voted for the Trinamool in comparison with solely 38 per cent for the BJP. Within the 2021 Meeting polls, the Trinamool was forward of the BJP by six share factors in its help from males, however its lead amongst girls over the BJP was twice as excessive. The Trinamool obtained 50 per cent of votes of ladies in comparison with the BJP’s 37 per cent.
In line with the examine, extra important numbers of “poor” and “decrease class girls” voted for the Trinamool than for the BJP in comparison with middle-class and prosperous/upper-class girls. In line with the examine, a number of welfare schemes for ladies, similar to Kanyashree, Rupashree or bicycles for lady college students, Lakshmir Bhandar, which ensured an honorarium for ladies from poorer households, helped shore up Trinamool’s help amongst girls.
The Trinamool gave Meeting tickets to 50 girls (on a complete 294 seats) in 2021, 5 greater than in 2016. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Trinamool fielded 17 girls candidates or 41.6 per cent of its complete candidates from Bengal. Within the Rajya Sabha, of the 13 Trinamool MPs by April, 5 might be girls.
First Revealed: Mar 06 2024 | 9:15 PM IST
