TMC nominates Sushmita Dev for Rajya Sabha bypoll in West Bengal
The Hindu
Bypoll to six Rajya Sabha seats, including the one in West Bengal, will be held on October 4.
The TMC on Tuesday named Sushmita Dev, who recently joined the party after quitting the Congress, as its candidate for bypoll to a Rajya Sabha seat. The seat in the state fell vacant after Manas Bhunia quit the upper house having won assembly elections from Sabang in Paschim Medinipur. Bypoll to six Rajya Sabha seats, including the one in West Bengal, will be held on October 4.Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”
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