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The present volume is the outcome of an in-depth study of contemporary politics in West Bengal. This book examines all major issues that came up in the 2021 Legislative Assembly elections in the State. This study investigates why despite having all strengths of money power, muscle power, and agency power, the BJP had to suffer a deplorable defeat to the Trinamool Congress Party in the Legislative Assembly elections of Bengal. The rise and fall of two erstwhile ruling parties - the Congress and the CPI(M) - have also been extensively explored. It is not that without any solid strength the Trinamool Congress Party came out with a stupendous victory for the third term. Hence, the performance of the TMC government has been examined. The Government schemes are mostly full of glitters, and many of those schemes are borrowed from the Union Government. Besides, the majority of outward development works were done with borrowed money. Additionally, the book extensively deals with the nature and extent of pre-poll, during-poll, and post-poll violence mostly committed by the Ruling Party. The role and functions of the Election Commission of India have been critically reviewed. Some concrete policy recommendations have been extended for the holistic development of the State. The students & researchers of Political Science and Public Administration will be benefited from it. It is a must-read book for the top policymakers as well as party top bosses of West Bengal.
Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal
Dr. Keshab Chandra Mandal is a renowned Researcher and Author in India. Along with his teaching profession, he has dedicated himself to research and publications for a long 2 decades. He is the author of 14 books, three monographs, and more than four dozen articles. Also, he was the editor-in-chief of an e-magazine and a Bengali newspaper. Presently he is on the editorial board of a monthly e-magazine. He has presented papers and delivered lectures in several national and state-level seminars, conferences, and symposiums and was invited to attend conferences at various Universities from Europe such as V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; University of Leeds, UK, etc. He is a life member of the West Bengal Political Science Association and the Bengal Institute of Political Studies, and a former member of the Jadavpur Association of International Relations. His fields of interest are gender empowerment, local governments, and development studies. This author obtained his first M.A. Degree in Political Science from Kalyani University (1991), two more M.A. Degrees from Madurai Kamraj University (2006 & 2008), and Ph. D. Degree from Vidyasagar University (2009), and successfully completed an ICSSR-sponsored research project (2015-2017) as Project Director. Out of his total 14 books, four works in six publications in the English language have 46 world library holdings.
Books by this author
1. A Panorama of Ghatal (2006)
2. West Bengal: Problems and Prospects (2008)
3. Poetry: The Mirror of Society (2009)
4. West Bengal Government: The Issues and Constraints of Development (2010)
5. Empowerment of Women and Panchayati Raj: Experiences from West Bengal (2010)
6. Gender and Empowerment: A Comparative Analysis of India and USA (2012)
7. Barack Obama: The Harbinger of Peace and Prosperity (2013)
8. The Thoughts of an Unknown Indian (2014)
9. Ghatal Pourasabha: Unnayan O Kichu Bhabna (in Bengali, 2014)
10. Mamata Banerjee: The Maker of New Bengal (2018)
11. Gender Empowerment in Local Governments: Prospects and Debates of Sustainable Development in India (2019)
12. Socio-economic and Political Impact of Coronavirus on India: Challenges and Prospects (2020)
13. Sustainable Development in India: A Comparison with the G-20 (2020)
14. National Education Policy 2020: The Key to Development in India (2021)
