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Barring occasional interviews with the news media, he works rather quietly in his election war room or is seated obscurely among throngs of party workers and leaders listening intently to them. Yet, the "Man of the Match" sobriquent has often been bestowed upon Prashant Kishor for his role in winning for towering leaders across parties an election game. And West Bengal was no different. "..., in reality BJP will struggle to cross double digits in #WestBengal," he had tweeted as early as December last year and his words proved prophetic. "If BJP does any better, I must quit this space!" t...

Opinion: So, No, Mr Modi Does Not Know How To Sweep Elections Opinion: So, No, Mr Modi Does Not Know How To Sweep Elections Updated: May 03, 2021 2:23 am IST They counted the votes before they counted the bodies. After huge super-spreader assembly election campaigns in several states, the results finally came in as India was gripped by an even deadlier wave of Covid. Cremation grounds overflowed and patients struggled breathlessly for scarce oxygen while the Election Commission - for whose actions a High Court has used the term 'murder' - told us who had won and who had lost. But not who h...

Read more about National politics set to change as Mamata Banerjee keeps West Bengal on Business Standard. The Left and the Congress appear to be way behind the curve in West Bengal's elections.

By itself, the party was leading in 124 seats

In battleground West Bengal, the BJP, following its emphatic performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, made its intentions clear right at the beginning - that they would go for the jugular.