Pan-Indian strategy won't work in Bengal: BJP leader after bypoll debacle
Kolkata: A day after the BJP scored a duck in the bypolls, its Bengal vice president Chandra Kumar Bose on Friday said it was time for the party to devise a state-specific plan as "a pan-Indian strategy would not apply to the land of Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose".
Calling for introspection, Bose, the grandnephew of Netaji, said the party should not have made the issue of NRC its primary poll plank during the by-polls.
"It is essential for the BJP in the state to cleanse the organisation and devise a Bengal-specific strategy. We have to rectify our organisational lacunae. A pan-Indian strategy will not apply to the land of Swami Vivekananda and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose," he told reporters.
Political parties must work to develop the basic infrastructure in the state and not just try to polarize people to secure vote banks, the senior BJP leader said.
"People of Bengal are politically sharp and astute.
Our party should not have made NRC its key poll plank as there is lot of confusion surrounding the matter. We could have highlighted other issues," he added.
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Thursday bagged all three assembly seats where bypolls were held earlier this week, trouncing challenger BJP, a victory that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee dubbed as a "mandate against NRC" and in favour of "secularism and unity".
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Man rapes 13-year-old stepdaughter in Beed; booked
Beed, Apr 13 (PTI): A 13-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her stepfather in Maharashtra's Beed district, police said on Monday.
Based on a complaint, the police have registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in connection with the incident, which occurred on April 9, an official said.
According to police, the teen's mother divorced her first husband nine years ago and married the accused, with whom she has a son.
On the afternoon of April 9, the accused allegedly sexually assaulted his stepdaughter while his wife was away and threatened her into silence, the official said.
He said that the assault came to light when the mother returned home and noticed a change in her daughter's behaviour and questioned her. The girl narrated the ordeal, following which a complaint was lodged at the Kaij police station.
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