What does, however, perplex me is the silence on West Bengal. On the surface, it’ll be a fight between Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Bengal is the ground on which perhaps the most serious battle between these conflicting political forces is likely to happen. No doubt, they are shrunken forces but whatever support they retain in Bengal is likely to be at Mamata’s cost. He did it for Narendra Modi in 2014, Nitish Kumar in 2015, Amarinder Singh in 2017, Jaganmohan Reddy in 2019 and Arvind Kejriwal in 2020.

Source: Hindustan Times August 15, 2020 13:30 UTC