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The BJP is at the gates in West Bengal Updated: Updated: December 28, 2020 22:49 IST Trinamool Congress may be better placed to take on the BJP by forging a broader secular alliance Share Article AAA Trinamool Congress may be better placed to take on the BJP by forging a broader secular alliance Of the five States where Assembly elections are scheduled in 2021, the political battle in West Bengal is likely to become the most fierce, given the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s aggressive bid for power in the State for the first time in history. Till 2014, BJP had remained a marginal player in Bengal politics contesting the Lok Sabha polls as a junior ally of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in 1998, 1999 and 2004. However, for Assembly elections, such as in 2001 and 2006, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee preferred the Congress over the BJP as the party’s ally. In the 2011 Assembly polls too, when the TMC finally unseated the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front in an alli

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