KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) is aware it is facing an “astitwer sankat (existential crisis)” in West Bengal. BJP state president Dilip Ghosh was the MLA from Kharagpur Sadar. But he resigned after getting elected to the Lok Sabha from the Medinipur constituency. “The BJP could win in 2019 only due to a deliberate transfer of CPI(M) votes,” says Saugata Roy, TMC’s three-time Lok Sabha MP from Dum Dum. The BJP has been more aggressive after the Lok Sabha results, after they got good results.”BJP has become a formidable opposition to the TMC, says Das of Calcutta University.

Source: Economic Times November 16, 2019 17:26 UTC