BJP has mounted an all-out campaign to unseat Mamata in Bengal, but despite anti-incumbency, Suvendu Adhikari’s rise and Modi’s campaign blitz, cultural missteps, voter alienation and Didi’s enduring appeal complicate its path
The BJP will deliver this paribartan. All voters have to do is reject Banerjee for her failures of governance, the systemic rot evident in the widespread mismanagement and abuse of power by Trinamool Congress’s local bahubalis, shielded by a culpable administration and police. BJP has projected itself as the dependable alternative, the party of bharosa , and positioned itself as one that will provide a ‘double-engine’ sarkar — with a Narendra Modi-led govt at the Centre overseeing a state unit working under his stewardship.