Swapan Dasgupta
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West Bengal Budget 2026: From 20% DA hike to 1 lakh new jobs, check key announcements
Business | Jun 22, 2026, 11:41 PM ISTWest Bengal Budget 2026: Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta allocated Rs 36,000 crore for the women's financial assistance scheme Annapurna Yojna.
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Rashbehari Election Results 2026: BJP's Swapan Dasgupta wins against TMC's Debasish Kumar
West Bengal | May 05, 2026, 07:12 AM ISTDasgupta, a former journalist, was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha from 2016 to 2022, barring a few months in between. In 2021, he resigned from the upper house to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections from Tarakeswar on a BJP ticket but lost by more than 7,000 votes.
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Speculation rife over entry of Sourav Ganguly's wife into Rajya Sabha
India | May 23, 2022, 12:10 PM ISTAlthough there was neither any acceptance or denial from the Ganguly family on this count till this report was filed, statements by state party president, Sukanta Majumdar and BJP's national vice president, Dilip Ghosh on Monday sparked the speculation further.
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'My anger is real too': Babul Supriyo reacts to BJP leader Swapan Dasgupta's remarks
India | Sep 19, 2021, 04:22 PM ISTBJP leader Dasgupta claimed that Supriyo's decision of switching parties can lead to him "ending up damaging his own image". Babul Supriyo reverted that the ‘Rivals’ who joined BJP were embraced and were given top posts, but the ‘real’ BJP grass-root fighters were ignored.
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Swapan Dasgupta re-nominated to Rajya Sabha, Mahesh Jethmalani also gets seat in Upper House
India | Jun 01, 2021, 06:44 PM ISTSwapan Dasgupta, who became a Rajya Sabha member on April 25, 2016, was named BJP's candidate from Tarakeshwar constituency in West Bengal. He lost the election.
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Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta resigns; decks cleared for contesting Bengal polls on BJP ticket
Elections | Mar 16, 2021, 01:30 PM ISTSwapan Dasgupta was a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha. The BJP has fielded him from Tarakeshwar seat in Hooghly district.
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She reduced campaign to political gutter: Swapan Dasgupta on CM Banerjee's Modi-Shah 'syndicate' remark
News | Mar 09, 2021, 10:02 AM ISTBJP leader Swapan Dasgupta reacted on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Narendra Modi-Amit Shah is nation's only syndicate remark.
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BJP delegation meets CEC over West Bengal's law and order situation, Mamata hits back
Politics | Dec 15, 2020, 02:55 PM ISTWe've asked EC that considering the extraordinary circumstances in WB, model code of conduct should be applied at the earliest: Swapan Dasgupta, Rajya Sabha MP
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KV Kamath, Swapan Dasgupta likely to be inducted in Modi govt
India | Jan 17, 2020, 09:19 PM ISTBRICS Bank Chairman K.V. Kamath and BJP Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta are among the technocrats likely to be inducted into the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi soon.
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Swapan Dasgupta urges PM not to inaugurate Birbhum coal block
India | Sep 19, 2019, 02:03 PM ISTHe wrote the letter to Modi a day after Banerjee invited the prime minister to inaugurate the Deocha Pachami, the second-largest coal block in the world, after Durga Puja.
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Anupam Kher’s Twitter account hacked, ‘I love Pakistan’ tweeted the hackers from Turkey
Celebrities | Feb 06, 2018, 04:30 PM ISTTwitter account of Swapan Dasgupta has also been suspended after hacking speculations.
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Subramanian Swamy, Navjot Sidhu, Mary Kom among six nominated to Rajya Sabha
National | Apr 22, 2016, 08:17 PM ISTPresident Pranab Mukherjee today gave his approval to the names of seven people nominated to the Rajya Sabha. The list includes the names of senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu and Olympian boxer Mary Kom.
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Modi government's media policy - keep them away?
National | Jul 21, 2014, 01:07 PM ISTNew Delhi: It has been almost two months since Narendra Modi took charge as India's prime minister, but the new government is yet to spell out its media and information policy - except by default.