In BJP's Bengal blunders, lessons for all parties- The New Indian Express
The BJP’s biggest mistake, as it desperately sought to occupy people’s mindspace and create hype, was to invite hordes of TMC leaders accused of goondaism into its fold
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The BJP’s biggest mistake, as it desperately sought to occupy people’s mindspace and create hype, was to invite hordes of TMC leaders accused of goondaism into its fold
Heads should roll in Delhi, in all fairness. How could so many agencies—the CBI, ED, I-T, central police forces and, of course, the Election Commission, have so spectacularly and collectively failed to deliver the goods, and leave the ruling establishment licking its wounds after the results in West Bengal? Political and regional factors apart, it is the overdose of almost everything that has now come to be associated with an Indian election that seems to have done the BJP in. The BJP had ticked every box: dozens of trips by chartered flights/helicopters as “imported leaders” criss-cros...