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Kolkata Dec 22 PTI A day after his partys dismal performance in the KMC polls veteran BJP leader Tathagata Roy slammed the state leadership saying the party is being run by a bunch of rotten debauch-cum-traitors On Tuesday West Bengals ruling TMC gained control of the 144-member Kolkata Municipal Corporation clinching 134 seats in an emphatic endorsement for the party seven months after its landslide win in the state assembly polls The BJP which lost much of its steam after the assembly poll defeat managed to win just three wards the Congress and the CPI M-led Left Front two and Independents three Hindu Bengalis seem headed for doom and extinction Their principal abode the state of West Bengal has been a Kakistocracy ruled by a bunch of soul-destroyers for the last 44 years Government by the worst persons a form of government in which the worst persons are in power Roy a former governor of Tripura and Meghalaya tweeted BJP who could have resurrected it was left to be run by a bunch of thoroughly rotten debauch-cum-traitors The result was the Assembly election debacle of 2021 And because there was no serious course correction thereafter the rout in Municipal elections KakistocracyWestBengal he said in a series of tweets The Left Front despite the mauling finished second only to the TMC in terms of vote share and in a majority of the wards it pushed the BJP to the third position Continuing his tirade against the state leadership Roy said he has pointed out the lacunae at party forums on numerous occasions but nothing was done to rectify the mistakes Some people are feeling bad about my comments against BJP publically I am also upset about it But there is no other way I have said those things secretly at party forums but it did not have not been any result It doesnt matter whether I am alive or dead What is important is the defeat of the Hindu Bengalis is imminent he wrote Roy who has been attacking the partys West Bengal leadership since the assembly poll debacle had said last month he has decided to bid farewell to the state unit of the BJP for the time being a remark that was interpreted as an indication that he will hold fire He had said he would wait to see the municipal poll results West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar declined to comment saying only Roy can speak speak for his statements Roy had been critical of the decisions taken by BJPs West Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya now the partys national vice president Dilip Ghosh and senior leaders Arvind Menon and Shiv Prakash and blamed them for the partys poor show in the assembly elections PTI PNT SK SK

Mambalikalathil Sarada Menon, the Institute of Mental Health’s longest-serving head, died on Sunday in Chennai. She was 98 years old at the time. Sarada Menon was born in Mangaluru and raised in Chennai. She studied psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences in Bengaluru after graduating from Madras Medical College. Also, […]

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Bengaluru Oct 24 PTI The 1971 Indo-Pakistan war which gave birth to Bangladesh tilted the balance of power in Indias favour in the sub-continent with Pakistan losing its ability to threaten India with the two-front war former Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said on Sunday He said Bangladesh today is a development success story as that country overtook India and Pakistan in terms of per capita income and human development indicators In the Indian sub-continent the outcome tilted the balance of power in Indias favour with Pakistan losing the ability to threaten India with the two-front war and for several years losing also the confidence to launch a conventional war Menon said during the Swarnim Vijay Varsh Conclave organised here to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Indias victory in the 1971 war The former diplomat who had served as the National Security Adviser under former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said the war brought India peace with Pakistan for almost three decades until Pakistan thought that her nuclear weapon has redressed the balance and tried Kargil only to fail again According to him the war showed Pakistan that it could not match India in conventional warfare or count on Chinese or United States intervention It resulted in Pakistan adopting non-conventional way of violence by use of terrorism and Jihadi Tanzeem as a policy Menon said Pakistan has made it into a regular state policy and particularly after the Jihad against the Soviet Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s perfected her modus operandi the former diplomat Menon said the positive effect of the wars outcome clearly outweighed the lingering after-effects on Bangladeshi politics Today Bangladesh is a development success story She has taken over both Pakistan and India in terms of per capita income human development indicators he said According to Menon India and Bangladesh now enjoy a relationship of unequalled cooperation and understanding contributing to each others security and prosperity in real and significant way Speaking about the Indo-Pakistan war the former diplomat said the 1971 war changed the course of geo-politics of sub-continent Indian-Pakistan relations politics within India Bangladesh and Pakistan and also affected relations with super-powers Menon said the primary reason for Indias success in 1971 war was a clear political aim of India which was followed by an integrated grand strategy The goal was to liberate Bangladesh by military and other means This was made clear immediately after the Operation Searchlight The grand strategy to achieve this end goal marshalled all the available instruments of the state power -- integrating military diplomatic economic and domestic affairs the former diplomat told the gathering He opined that Bangladesh should be seen as liberated by its own people Explaining the preparations at home Menon said the challenge was also to maintain communal harmony in the face of atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh and massive Pakistani incitement to communal violence in India PTI GMS NVG NVG