It’s a subject that features on most news broadcasts, but it’s particularly timely given the snap general election that was called earlier this week here in the UK.
I’ve come across many of these words before on the daily news (in Bengali) podcast from Japan’s NHK state media. (And perhaps we should pause for a minute to consider how cool it is that NHK puts out the news in Bengali.)
I’ve also recently started to occasionally tune in to Today Bangla TV News Live on YouTube, but – from the World Service’s BBC Bangla to Deutsche Welle – there’s plenty of other parts of the web where you can find the news in Bengali to hear the words below.
রাজনীতি (rajniti) – politics
রাজনীতিক (rajnitik) – politician
রাজনৈতিক (rajnoitik) – political
রাষ্ট্রপতি, সভাপতি (rastropoti, shobhapoti) – president
প্রধান মন্ত্রী (prodhan montri) – prime minister
মন্ত্রী (montri) – minister
নির্বাচন, ভোট (nirbacon, bhot) – vote
নির্বাচন (nirbacon) – election*
নির্বাচন করা (nirbacon kora) – elect (to vote)
সংসদ (shongshod) – parliament
দল (dol) – party (or group)
কর্মসূচি (kormosuci) – policy
চলন, গতি (colon, goti) – motion**
প্রস্তাব করা (prostab kora) – propose
প্রস্তাব (prostab) – proposal
* This one wasn’t in the dictionary, but this is what Google Translate provided
** Thinking about it, this is probably a rather ambiguous word to include
The vocabulary for this, and other Bengali language posts, can be found in flashcard form on my Quizlet profile
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