Kolkata: Inspired by the words of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, ‘What Bengal Thinks Today, India Thinks Tomorrow’, the conclave draws from Bengal’s historic legacy pioneering in business, trade, transport and culture, when Kolkata served as the capital of British India. With this thought, TV9 Bangla creates a dynamic platform to understand the pulse of Bengal’s upcoming elections. This mega thought leadership forum will ignite debates, drive political discussions, engaging visionary minds, influential voices, political leaders, policymakers, and strategists. It aims to create a dynamic platform to address challenges and opportunities shaping Bengal’s political landscape.
The conclave plans to launch with the keynote address, Former MP of Rajya Sabha, Jawhar Sircar who explains on how Bengal has also gained pins of hope amidst despair. He will be speaking about where Bengal stands with respect to the current GDP status, Per Capita Income, current infrastructure or urban development, rise of MSME, growth in terms of labour-intensive technology, encouraging venture capitals & private equity, the growing IT services, the cordial relations with centre and the state.
There were six panel discussions which contain-
• Balanced and insightful deliberations
• Election campaign by young politicians
• Development agenda on minority issues
• Women welfare schemes
• Factors impacting the future roadmap of the state.
– By far and large, the panel discussions will converge into a climax Bongo Yuddha Mega Debate. The debate promises to be a definitive political face-off ahead of the elections.
Besides, there will be one-on-one interaction with the leading politicians.
Among the prominent speakers who will be sharing their voices in the most definitive political discourse:
• Bratya Basu, Minister of Higher Education & School Education Department Government of West Bengal.
• Shashi Panja, Minister in Charge Industry, Commerce & Enterprise, Women & Child Development & Social Welfare, Government of West Bengal.
• Firhad Hakim Mayor of Kolkata, Minister In Charge of Urban Development & Municipal Affairs, Government of West Bengal;
• Kunal Ghosh, TMC
• Samik Bhattacharya, State President BJP, West Bengal
• Sukanta Majumder, Union Minister of State for Education & Development of North-Eastern Region Government Of India
• Dilip Ghosh, Former State BJP President
Others, who will be taking the dais, will be: Debangshu Bhattacharya (TMC); Shankar Ghosh(BJP); Arup Chakraborty (TMC), Rudranil Ghosh(BJP); Shatarup Ghosh (CPM); Dipsita Dhar(CPM); Humayun Kabir, founder of Janata Unnayan Party (JUP); Nawsad Siddique, (ISF).
On this occasion, Amritanshu Bhattacharya, Managing Editor & Business Head, TV9 Bangla asserts, “In this day-long conclave, we have tried to highlight which issues should be emphasized in an election and on which issues the election stands. As a news medium, it is perhaps our responsibility to showcase the pillars. The main pillar is – we, the common people who vote. How aware we are about what our demands? How much we can make political parties think? As a news medium, it is our responsibility to provide you with resources. That’s why we have today’s conclave. We started with the judiciary panel. If you look, today, all political activities start and end with the judiciary. They go to court to decide whether a procession or meeting will be held. Sometimes it seems that at this moment, the court is the last hope for the political parties. Whether it’s a good advertisement for political parties or not, that only political parties can say. Apart from this, a new group of young politicians are emerging. Our expectation is that those who are from the new generation, they will become the new brand in Indian Politics as they think little differently outside of conventional thoughts and ideas. Then maybe our future days will be different. We have kept a separate women’s panel because today, we consider women as equal power. But ultimately, somewhere, it seems that women become a vote bank or a target. In recent times, we have seen that religion has entered politics. Religion has become a very important pillar in this political change or thinking. With this Mega Conclave throughout the day, and we will try to understand What Bengal Thinks Today”
As Bengal decides its destiny for the next 5 years, TV9 Bangla What Bengal Thinks Today will stage the state’s most definitive, comprehensive & Biggest Conclave.
Below mentioned are the sponsors that deserves special mention:
• Title Sponsor: Jac Olivol
• Co-presented by: Sunrise Pure, Novesta Group
• Co-powered by: Shalimar’s Mustard Oil, Oshea Herbals
• Special Partners: Mukharochak, MCKV Institute of Engineering, Kutchina-The Kitchen Experts, Alliance Broadband, Air India.
-Based on Press Release
