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The Congress-Left combine’s increased vote share as well as the Citizenship (Amendment) Act gaining no traction may have been key factors that led to the BJP’s poor performance in the state.
A NEW STANDOFF is underway between the ruling Trinamool Congress and Governor in West Bengal – this time over the swearing-in of two MLAs of the party who won in recent bypolls.
On the eve of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) elections in September 2022, Bhaichung Bhutia who aspired to be the president was asked to describe the administrative and decision-making skills of his rival Kalyan Chaubey. Not willing to run down his former India teammate, Bhutia called him a “sweet guy, nice person” but did not rate his rival’s qualities.
Divisions in the West Bengal BJP are out in the open since the party lost ground in the state in the Lok Sabha elections, dropping from 18 to 12 seats. After the results, Bishnupur MP Saumitra Khan was among the first to criticise the state leadership for the party’s poor performance. A three-time MP, Khan defeated the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) candidate Sujata Mondal, his ex-wife, by just 5,567 votes. It was the narrowest victory margin in all the 42 seats in the state.
At a time when internal differences in West Bengal BJP are out in the open, the question of who will take over the faction-ridden state unit has arisen following the appointment of current state BJP president Sukanta Majumdar as the Minister of State (MoS) in the Narendra Modi government.
With the BJP failing to replicate its 2019 Lok Sabha election success in West Bengal and losing ground to the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the fissures in the state unit are once again out in the open, with at least two prominent leaders criticising the state leadership in recent days.
The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) on Sunday retained power with a landslide win in the Himalayan state of Sikkim winning 31 of the 32 seats in the Assembly polls while restricting the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) to just one.
As the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal enter its last two laps, the Mamata Banerjee government’s Lakshmir Bhandar scheme seems to have taken centre stage.