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An India Today ground report from West Bengal captures the political sentiment of people in Purulia, Asansol and Bankura ahead of the assembly election.
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00:29Untertitelung des ZDF, 2020
00:30If you put a mark on the dance, this is Puru-lia-choki.
00:45Chaw.
00:50One of the most celebrated folk dances of West Bengal.
01:01A striking blend of drama.
01:07Martial artistry.
01:17Theatrics.
01:19And storytelling.
01:24Adorned with elaborate masks and powerful movement.
01:33It brings to life tales drawn from Indian mythology.
01:40Vivid scenes from Ramayana and Mahabharata.
01:48Each performance pulses with raw emotion.
01:54Passion.
01:56Aggression.
02:00Valor.
02:03And even deception.
02:10In many ways, the stage becomes a battleground.
02:16Charged, intense, unpredictable.
02:22Echoing, not just mythological wars, but the drama of power and politics.
02:33For Bengal, it's politics that is at play.
02:38Even when the masks drop.
03:06Even when the masks drop.
03:08It becomes a battleground.
03:09It becomes a battleground.
03:10Do you vote?
03:11Yes.
03:12Do you vote?
03:12What do you think about?
03:13What would the government want?
03:14I wish.
03:15Whatever would the government do it, I would vote.
03:17Is there a better government?
03:19Yes, there is.
03:19Do you like it?
03:21No.
03:21No, I don't like it.
03:22Do you like it?
03:23No?
03:24Then what would the government do?
03:26I would vote whoever would vote.
03:28Who would vote?
03:29What would the government do?
03:33What is the biggest thing about the government in the village?
03:37The government is running in the village.
03:41The government is running in the village.
03:46What did you say, Dad?
03:49The government is running well.
03:54The government is running well.
03:56The government is running well.
03:59How are you doing?
04:01When did you do this?
04:02This is running well-going.
04:03The dad will be coming and doing it.
04:08It will continue.
04:09Are someone doing something to do it now?
04:13The government is giving it to the government in the village.
04:151,000 rupiahs men?
04:181,000 rupiahs men.
04:21There is one village?
04:24Yes, there is one village.
04:24In their village, they're talking about Mahmoudi Ji's village, and they're talking about Mahmoudi Ji's village.
04:28They're talking about the heart and the heart.
04:30They're talking about the heart and the heart.
04:32Yes, that's the thing. Everyone loves their own.
04:34Wherever they go, that's right.
04:38What is your favorite thing about Puruliya and Bangal?
04:45Yes, we are artists who are.
04:46We are artists who are good.
04:48Yes, we are good at home.
04:49We are good at home.
04:50We are good at home.
04:52Yes.
04:52Yes.
04:52Your son?
04:53We say that we are in Puruliya.
04:57Does Puruliya and Bangal feel better or any other state feel better?
05:01That it's good at home.
05:02It's good at home.
05:04There's a lot of work.
05:04It's not about Bangalore.
05:06It's not about the community.
05:07It's about the community.
05:08Puruliya is good at home.
05:11If there's any other state, there's no one.
05:14No one.
05:15There's no one in Bangalore?
05:17Yes, there's no one in Bangalore.
05:18Yes.
05:19Yes.
05:19Do you have more money from the other state?
05:21No.
05:23We get more money from the other state.
05:24Yes.
05:27So you are happy with the government.
05:29Do you have any mother and sister in the house?
05:32Yes.
05:33Yes.
05:36Yes.
05:37Do you have the husband and sister?
05:40Yes.
05:40Come from?
05:42No.
05:43Come from?
05:44No.
05:44We are little different.
05:47Yes, we have a child and sister.
05:48Yes.
05:48I have a child.
05:48Maddie is.
05:49I have a baby.
05:50Yes.
05:50And the husband has given cycles?
05:53Yes.
05:54Or the government has given it?
05:55Yes.
05:55Yes.
05:56All of us have given it in the house?
05:58Yes.
06:21All elections are important, but some elections are a tad bit more important than the others.
06:27West Bengal is one such election. Big state, big dividends. Battle of ideologies, battle of prestige, whichever way you look
06:36at it, come the 4th of May, history will be scripted in this state.
06:40If Mamata Banerjee wins, then she becomes the first woman chief minister to script four consecutive wins.
06:49If BJP wins, then finally the lotus will bloom in West Bengal.
06:57It's clear the electoral stage of this election.
07:01It is a bitter bipolar contest.
07:05Didi or Dada. Mamata Banerjee or Narendra Modi.
07:10But Bengal's political theatre had seen many shifts.
07:20The Congress era, 1947 to 77.
07:25The left front rule, 1977 to 2011.
07:31The political shift to TMC, 2011 till now.
07:37The battle of 2026, continuity or a tectonic political shift, with the lotus finally blooming in Bengal.
08:00Onwards to Paschim Bhardaman district, to Asan, Seoul.
08:13The land of black diamond, known as the land of black diamond, the cradle of Indian coal mining.
08:27This region that served as the heart of India's industrial revolution.
08:48The mines here operated by Eastern Coalfields Limited, a subsidiary of Coal India.
08:57India nationalized its coal sector in 1973, creating a state monopoly.
09:04A 1993 amendment allowed limited private participation.
09:09The current government has since opened the sector further.
09:13Auctioning more than 104 coal blocks for commercial mining.
09:18The move faces strong trade union opposition and has become, in Asan, Seoul, an election issue for those connected to
09:28mining.
09:29And they are a sizable lot.
09:34Dude, the white kids are going to be black after we're done with this coal mine.
09:38First world problems.
09:40While they have union issues, which are way far more serious.
09:45My issues are, my white kids are going to go black.
09:48Have you ever been to a coal mine before?
09:50Yes.
09:51When, where?
09:56Many, many moons ago.
09:59In Maharashtra.
10:00Swet, swet, jute.
10:01No, Bhalu Thakbe.
10:03Huh?
10:03Bhalu Thakbe, take care.
10:05Bhalu Thakbe.
10:11How do you work?
10:12I am not a man.
10:13Do you feel the most fear of going to the mine?
10:16No, it is not a fear of going to the mine.
10:20I am not a fear of going to the mine.
10:21I am a habit of working a lot.
10:23My work is to look at safety.
10:24To look at the workers' safety.
10:28Do you have a great care of safety?
10:30Yes, it is a great care of safety.
10:31That's why we are getting a lot of support.
10:34We are getting a lot of support.
10:35We are getting a lot of support, as well as we don't get a roof.
10:37We have to look at ventilation.
10:39What do you do from fruition?
10:41When will you come here?
10:42No, I am not.
10:43From the 1996 launch.
10:44What are you doing from the mine?
10:45From the 1996 launch.
10:46What are you doing from the mine?
10:47We were loaded with Muncar.
10:49We were in the mines in the mine.
10:51We were all loaded with us.
10:53All of the time.
10:55We are in the army.
10:56We are able to aim at some time.
11:07We are tenants.
11:07What did you see? Did you change anything or did you change anything?
11:11It changed a lot.
11:12What changed?
11:12First of all, the main power was on top of it.
11:18It was empty, it was empty.
11:21But it was empty, it was empty.
11:23It was empty, it was empty.
11:25It was empty.
11:27So now the main power was not so much?
11:28No, because the main power was reduced.
11:31It was reduced.
11:35It was reduced.
11:37It was reduced.
11:37Why did it reduce?
11:38It was reduced because there was no vacancy.
11:41There was no vacancy.
11:42No vacancy.
11:43No vacancy.
11:48Do you have the impact on the health of your health?
11:53I do have a lot of questions.
11:54Your mental health will not give you health.
11:59Do you have the impact on the health of your health?
12:02Yes, why do you do this?
12:03I am sorry.
12:03Why do you do this?
12:05The 90% of the dust is dry, the dust is dry.
12:09The dust is dry.
12:12The dust is dry, the dust is dry.
12:13But the dust is dry.
12:13In the dust is dry.
12:14Is there anything, the dust is dry?
12:15No vacancy.
12:16I have been asked for safety for health.
12:18But it is still warm.
12:20It's because of the health of your health.
12:20No no.
12:21People have to wear a dress code.
12:23But it's so warm.
12:24It is so warm.
12:25All employees have to open the door and open the door.
12:29With safety?
12:31We hear a lot of accidents that happen in the mine.
12:34The workers are confused.
12:36Are they scared?
12:37Now we have a habit.
12:40We have a habit.
12:41If you are gone, you will be scared.
12:44We are scared.
12:46If you don't listen to the police,
12:48you will be scared.
12:51First time, we had a habit.
12:52We have a habit.
12:55How much is it?
12:58You have to go down to 1000 feet?
12:59Now it is 200 feet.
13:01It is 200 feet.
13:02Where is the main work?
13:04That is 1000 feet?
13:05You have to go down to 1000 feet.
13:07You have to go down to 3000 feet.
13:10Why did you choose to do this?
13:14I did not switch to the police.
13:17We had to do this.
13:19I don't have to move.
13:28Maybe he won't come down here.
13:28You have to go down to 1000 feet.
13:34We have to go down to 1000 feet.
13:36I do not have to move.
13:39He then,
13:39I am not going down.
13:40Not to go down to 1000 feet.
13:40First time,
13:41we have to go down.
13:46I have to go down to 1000 feet.
13:47When I am concerned,
13:47If we are people around,
13:47we will be terrified.
13:50When you are making the water, you will make water.
13:57You will call it a little water.
13:57Now, in the corner, you receive water and water.
14:03It is now free.
14:04If you have a product, that will make water and a little more.
14:08At the private market, the cost always grows.
14:11In the private market, there is no capital.
14:12In the private market, there is no capital.
14:16of the work, and the work will be reduced.
14:20Do you think it's possible to go here?
14:24No, no.
14:25But the people who work on the money work.
14:29No, you're saying it's good.
14:35If coal India invests into their coal work,
14:38it's a good thing to raise money.
14:41It's a good thing to raise money.
14:46We can do the same thing, but we don't get the same thing.
14:51So private works better, but you say you can do the same thing.
14:55We can do the same thing.
14:57Coal India should not privatize.
14:59You should give it to you, so you don't have the same ton of coal.
15:03We can do the same thing as well.
15:05What is your biggest goal?
15:07Coal India is now reducing its target.
15:12Why is it reducing?
15:13What is it reducing?
15:13No, it's not reducing it.
15:16Because if you have a government company, it's a weak point.
15:21If you need a land, then you don't get it.
15:25But as if you give it to a private company, it's easy to take it.
15:30It's easy to take it.
15:32Why are we seeing it?
15:33We're seeing it in the village.
15:34We don't have to take it.
15:35Just like you give it to you, everything will happen.
15:38Everything will happen.
15:38You don't have to do the coal.
15:40You don't have to do it.
15:42You don't have to do it.
15:43You don't have to do it.
15:45You don't have to do it.
15:46You don't have to do it.
15:46What is your biggest goal?
15:48The biggest goal is today's goal.
15:50One is MDO.
15:52One is MDO.
15:54The first thing that everyone is going to do is a first issue.
15:58There is a problem.
16:00There is a problem that people don't want to speak.
16:02What's your biggest goal?
16:04The problem that MDO is a fear.
16:05Come on.
16:08Why do you think MDO is a fear of the people's mind?
16:10What do you think MDO does it?
16:11What is MDO?
16:11Private theory.
16:12You say you have to say that your privacy says rapid rebound.
16:14The minds are driving through the profits.
16:16In 20 years in the trials.
16:17They are fear of the people's mind.
16:18It is a fear of the people's mind.
16:19The privacy is fear of the people's mind.
16:21People don't know if you say this.
16:23You're saying it yourself.
16:27Yes, it is.
16:29The other thing is health issues.
16:31If there is no one saying right,
16:33one is a worker,
16:35then four people are sick to get sick.
16:38They are in office order,
16:40they are in paperwork.
16:44And this is not a paper work.
16:46Let me tell you,
16:47let me tell you,
16:50which is the whole mine?
16:51East Co Ltd.
16:53Yes, the ECR.
16:54It is a private mine,
16:55who is the name of the mine?
16:58The two are now privatized.
16:59The mine is already the company.
17:03It was your first one.
17:04And it was the same.
17:06They increased.
17:07The government has the power.
17:08They give it a new mine.
17:10They tell you,
17:11make a whole structure.
17:13Make a house, make a house,
17:15make a house, make a house.
17:19They don't want to do it.
17:21You want to take a whole set-up.
17:23You want to get the mines.
17:25You want to do it.
17:27You want to sell it out.
17:28This is what people say,
17:30not to give it.
17:31That's nothing.
17:32How many mines are done?
17:33Nobody is given.
17:34No one is given.
17:35Nobody is given.
17:36You have opened it in Kenda.
17:38Your Chandra Project.
17:39Your Rajmohal Project.
17:41They are private.
17:41This is a thing that is a thing that we have to give to Sanjay Benazji.
17:47We have to give him a stooch.
17:50We don't think we have to give him here.
17:52What was the thing about Sanjay?
17:53I don't know.
17:54You don't know that the salary is the case.
17:57No one wants to talk about the salary.
17:58The salary is the case that there is no Sunday holiday duty.
18:03He will not get any money.
18:05He will be running the other year.
18:06We have to give him the same thing.
18:07He will give him the same thing.
18:10He will be running his own problems.
18:14He is the only thing about his life destiny.
18:15My third generation is working.
18:19He is the first generation.
18:26The second generation is working like this.
18:30Most people are working like this.
18:30No one will come up.
18:31We must all...
18:31Mr. Minotka's father, Mr. Minotka's father and our father,
18:35not his own place, and we are all working.
18:37Not his own place.
18:38Not his own place.
18:39The medical's view is not broken.
18:43It's late, it's the first thing.
18:46But it's late, it's the same thing.
18:48It's the same thing.
18:49We can tell you how much more people can tell you.
18:51We haven't left the health ward.
18:52We haven't left the order.
18:53We haven't left the order yet.
18:55We haven't left the order yet.
18:56We haven't left the order yet.
18:57We haven't left the meeting.
19:02What's your name, brother?
19:04We will complete it?
19:06We will complete it.
19:08Okay, brother.
20:01What you see is residue of the coal,
20:05which is mined right there in the coal mine.
20:08And the women that you see who are breaking these small rocks
20:11are trying to find hole from the residue
20:14so they can actually use back hole for their chula.
20:20Didi, kya kar hai?
20:23Kya kar hai, didi?
20:25Chunna padta hai.
20:26Chunna padta hai.
20:28Ismese koila nikal raha hai?
20:30Kya hote hai?
20:31Ishtim mein banata hai.
20:32Ishtim mein kachcha koila.
20:34Chunna padta hai.
20:35Ishtim banana padta hai.
20:37Ishtim koila ka kya karta hai?
20:38Ghar mein chula jalata hai.
20:39Toh kya kirta hai?
20:41Chula jalata hai.
20:42Ishtim se ishtim jalata hai.
20:44Ishtim koila chula jalata hai.
20:46Chula to jalega hai.
20:48Ghas hai da ghar mein, didi?
20:49Na.
20:51Na.
20:59Kya kar hai, didi?
21:02Ghas nahi hai.
21:03Nahan.
21:04Kya kar raha hai.
21:04Ishtim se kotke, ishtimen koila nikal raha hai.
21:08Ãœhtim lima kya karange kya karahan ghar?
21:10Thana ban doctor shan pro rasa baSee ki allar
21:11Khaana banega ishtil galasa hasil baika ishtimul.
21:16Ghas pehel hai, thai hai hai.
21:17Ghas pehel tha ya thai hai nahi gas.
21:18Nai gas nahi.
21:19Ghas nahi hai?
21:20Dr natta here?
21:21powderุ
21:22Ghas se dr nattaة.
21:23Ishtim nelakta hai.
21:28What do you guys do?
21:30What do you guys do?
21:31What do you guys do?
21:33We've got news from the news.
21:36Are you familiar with that?
21:38Who do you like?
21:41Do you like Mahmita Didi?
21:43Do you like it?
21:44I don't know.
21:48How do you like it?
21:48How do you like it?
21:49How do you like it?
21:51Let's see, we are poor.
21:53It's a good thing.
21:54What?
21:55If you live, you will be punished.
21:57If you live, you will be punished.
21:59You will not change anything for you.
22:01It's a good thing.
22:02It's a good thing.
22:05It's a good thing.
22:06It's a good thing.
22:25It's a good thing.
22:25As a journalist on the election trade, you risk becoming jaded.
22:30There are too many stories.
22:32Too much pain.
22:34A creeping numbness that settles in over time.
22:38But ever so often, a story breaks through.
22:42It lingers.
22:43It stays with you.
22:52Reporting on a state getting ready to vote is a privilege.
22:56But it is exhausting.
22:59An onslaught on all your senses.
23:01Where you try and make sense of the mood, the undercurrent, the culture.
23:06And a game of Karim is intrinsic to Bengal's culture.
23:13For those of you who are Bengali, or for those who know anyone who is Bengali, know exactly
23:18what I'm talking about when I say the word Adda.
23:21Well, as we make our way through Bengal, what we've seen is with Adda comes Karim.
23:26We've seen late into the night when we've been traveling, groups, people coming together,
23:31playing Karim.
23:33It's as much as it's a game to win contest.
23:36It's also to hang Adda.
23:40What we've done is, we don't know what the results are going to be come the 4th of May.
23:44But we've got some of the students from political parties who are in this contest to come together.
23:52Adda and some Karim.
23:54But let's see who wins this time.
23:56So we have at this side, this is the TNC.
23:58Most of them students from the TNC students wing.
24:01We have the Bharatiya Janata Party.
24:02And we have the left right there, the CPIN.
24:05So let's start right away.
24:06So who will you start here first?
24:08You will start with BJP.
24:10What's your name, Adda?
24:12Jeevan Mandal.
24:13Jeevan Mandal.
24:14Come, Jeevan Mandal.
24:15Come, Jeevan Mandal.
24:16Suman Karmakar.
24:17Suman Karmakar.
24:18CPIN.
24:19Come, come.
24:20You?
24:21Shuktadi Das.
24:22Shuktadi Das.
24:23What are you playing?
24:25Let's start and let's see who wins.
24:27Come, start.
24:29How will you start?
24:30Who will you start first?
24:30I will start.
24:31I will start.
24:32You will start.
24:34Let's start.
24:35Let's start.
24:36Let's start.
24:37First of all, one thing to start.
24:38You don't have the left left.
24:41But why do you have left with the left?
24:43No.
24:44Left with the left.
24:44No.
24:45It's just the media.
24:46I don't have one seat.
24:47No.
24:48No.
24:48I mean, you're going to have the left.
24:52You're talking about it.
24:52We have a state of parliamentary election.
24:53Yes.
24:54We must be zero.
24:55But we are also at jail.
24:57No.
24:58No, no, no, no, no.
25:00I stay at jail.
25:01We are all right.
25:02We are attracted to a casteist.
25:04We are in a casteist.
25:06I don't want to find a casteist.
25:07We will have a casteist and bring a.
25:08Washstance into the other and when going to BJP.
25:10Then we will pay.
25:13You can do that, right?
25:14I don't.
25:14No, no one.
25:16You won't win.
25:18We will win.
25:18We will come to the government.
25:20This time you feel like there is a lot of anti-incumbency.
25:22No, TKKT-TMC.
25:24Dedi, who is working for our state,
25:27there is no question that we will go here.
25:30Dedi, we will win more than this time.
25:34TMC is still there, TMC will remain.
25:37And they have an answer from that.
25:40There are losers, they have to be the people.
25:44And they are not in the C.P.A.
25:46They are not in the C.P.A.
25:47They have to be the Pacific, they are not in the C.P.A.
25:50They are not in the C.P.A.
25:51They are not out there, they are out there.
25:53The time will come to the rights of the BJP?
25:56There will come 110% BJP.
26:00The four talents will be gained.
26:02Theック of the Bushmen will become a government.
26:07I am confident.
26:13You are dividing the Bengals, do you not have a division of Bengals or do you have a division?
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26:47who wins this one
26:48they say you will not do anything
26:49we do we do
26:51one thing that you do
26:57who wins
26:59who wins
27:00who wins
27:01we win
27:01who wins
27:04who wins
27:04who wins
27:04who's in the camera
27:05who's the number two
27:07who is the number two
27:09one
27:09who is the number three
27:09others are zero
27:10actually
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27:25foreign
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28:16Well, that win is in a game of Karam.
28:19The real game is still on.
28:22Results come 4th of May.
28:41In the 3rd of May, the last May, the last May of the May of the Day , the last
28:44May of the Day , the first May of the Day , the last Mays of this day .
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