Why Siraj-ud-Daulah, Mir Jafar and Sanatan Dharma in Bengal buzz? Turn to ‘Rajmata’ Amrita Roy vs Mahua Moitra

FIREWORKS were guaranteed in the Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal, given how the BJP and sitting Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra slugged it out in the outgoing Lok Sabha. The BJP has added an extra spark with its choice of candidate to take on Mahua.

So if its chief line of attack against the suave TMC MP is her lifestyle — with Moitra making it clear she won’t be apologetic about it — the BJP has picked someone who will match her at least in this department. Hence comes in ‘Rajmata’ Amrita Roy, belonging to the erstwhile Krishnanagar royal family; at 63, somewhat late to be making a political debut, but with her lineage, an evergreen candidate.

The BJP campaign is projecting the student of Kolkata’s posh La Martiniere School for Girls and Loretto College as, yes, a representative of the “Moharaja’r poribar (Maharaja’s family)” but also a “ghorer bou (ideal housewife)”.

An extra touch was added when Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself called up Roy — a conversation the BJP immediately made viral — and told her he was working to ensure that the money “looted from the poor people of West Bengal” and attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is returned to them. The conversation happened on the same day as Moitra received another ED summons over an alleged Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contravention case, part of a cash-for-questions allegations case over which she was suspended from the Lok Sabha last year. Besides, the alleged corruption of the state’s ruling TMC leaders is one of the main planks of the BJP in West Bengal.

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