"BJP will win in Bengal for first time" Shishir Bajoria | Paranjoy Asks Questions - Episode 09

Booth Level Officers (BLOs), who are employees of the West Bengal government, are harassing voters in the state. Nevertheless, the Bharatiya Janata Party is confident of coming to power in West Bengal for the first time. These are some of the claims made by Shishir Bajoria, industrialist and member of the executive committee of the BJP in the state, in an exclusive interview with Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. Before he joined the BJP after Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of India, Bajoria was a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist and a confidante of former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Somnath Chatterjee. 

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Link of the recording of the 70-minute deposition on 14 February 2022 by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta to the Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice (retired) R V Raveendran on allegations of misuse of the Israeli Pegasus spyware on Indian citizens: https://pegasus-india-investigation.in/depositions/paranjoy-guha-thakurta-statement/