{
  "id": 8601029,
  "title": "'Football Will Deflate': Himanta Sarma Jabs Mamata Banerjee Over Party Symbol",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/football-will-deflate-himanta-sarma-jabs-mamata-banerjee-over-party",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-20T03:30:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "NDTV",
    "slug": "ndtv",
    "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/himanta-sarma-jabs-mamata-banerjee-over-new-trinamool-symbol-for-bypolls-football-will-deflate-12070863"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Mamata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool has been given the name \"Mamata All India Trinamool Congress\" and the \"football player\" symbol ahead of the October 6 bypolls in Bengal, according to NDTV.\n\nThe Congress party has reacted strongly to the arrest of its Nandigram bypoll candidate, Milan Pradhan, in a 19-year-old case. The party has called the move \"political revenge\" and a \"murder of democracy\". Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary K C Venugopal have both spoken out against the arrest, accusing the BJP of trying to \"hijack\" democracy and undermine the opposition.\n\nThe Indian Express reported that Rahul Gandhi said the BJP wants to cling to power through various means, including vote theft and stealing parties. K C Venugopal described the situation in West Bengal as having democracy \"on ventilator\".",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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      {
        "outlet": "NDTV - India News",
        "title": "'Football Will Deflate': Himanta Sarma Jabs Mamata Banerjee Over Party Symbol",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/20/football-will-deflate-himanta-sarma-jabs-mamata-banerjee-over-party-8603380",
        "published": "2026-09-20T03:30:36.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}