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View: The real poriborton Bengal needs is freeing grassroots politics from party grip SECTIONS Share Synopsis In the fast-changing political dynamics of the state, there is a consensus that the systematic rigging and violence during the 2018 panchayat election was a watershed moment that triggered political change. It was after this that the thick social base of the Left decided to shift over to the BJP as the former was considered incapable of taking on the repressive power of the incumbent regime. Reuters While pollsters and political pundits are busy speculating about various electoral out...

The real poriborton Bengal needs is freeing grassroots politics from party grip April 3, 2021, 11:03 PM IST The writer is a political analyst associated with Peoples Pulse While pollsters and political pundits are busy speculating about various electoral outcomes in Bengal, there seems to be one thing they all seem to agree on — the colossal weakening of the incumbent Trinamool Congress in recent years. ​The argument that pro-Trinamool analysts are employing is that the residual charisma of Mamata Banerjee may spring a surprise on May 2, the overa...

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What issues do you think will be determining this West Bengal election? Prasenjit? Prasenjit Bose: We should look at the BJP’s surprise performance in the 2019 election in which, for the first time, it crossed the 40% vote share threshold and won 18 seats. Although one could see it coming up in a big way, the extent of its surge was not expected. You should start from there. Has the BJP gained further momentum since then? Or has the TMC been able to retrieve some ground, which it appeared to have lost in 2019? Or has anti-incumbency just continued to grow? Also Read

Many of those familiar with the academic and political language of an earlier age may find one feature of the ongoing agitation in the neighbourhood of the national capital interesting: the easy replacement of the...