Follow us on INDIA May 2 Verdict: BJP may have not won a famous victory in Bengal but its outlook certainly has prevailed May 4, 2021, 7:17 PM IST The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now The BJP must be silently chafing at not having delivered the people of Bengal from, in the saffron party’s own words, the ‘’tolabaaz syndicate led by the Begum of Bengal’’. The BJP repeatedly told us Bengal was fed up with the TMC for taking ‘’cut-money” from the most indigent and was resentful that its chief Mamata Banerjee churlishly refused to dignify the slogan Jai Shri Ram. That there was some merit in the assessment was borne out by Mamata Banerjee’s chief poll strategist Prashant Kishor. In a leaked audio conversation he was heard conceding that Hindi-speaking Hindus and a section of electorally influential tribal communities had fallen under BJP chief campaigner Prime Minister Modi’s spell.