It is true that the BJP failed to secure an electoral victory in Bengal however, it succeeded politically by establishing itself as the principal opposition force. The Bengal verdict: electoral victory, political defeat These claims are flawed at both the ideological and electoral levels, and are based on a bloated image, manufactured more via proximity to the Delhi media and its anglophone Twitterati than by political support on the ground.ДЄlso read: After Meeting Pawar, Mamata Takes Swipes at Congress, Calls for Unity of Regional Parties Under normal circumstances, such attacks could have been considered routine posturing before elections and thus ignored however, given that this is a period of great churning in our nationвЂ™s politics, a sober assessment of their claims are in order. The вЂdecisivenessвЂ™ with which the TMC is attacking the principal opposition party rather than the BJP seems to show that it shares the prime ministerвЂ™s agenda at the national level. All India Trinamool Congress November 1, 2021 Instead of accusing others INC should put its house in order to effectively fight BJP or let others whoвЂ™ve the will & ability to fight them nationally. In WB, weвЂ™ve been fighting & successfully defeating BJP since 2001. present leadership is BJPвЂ™s BIGGEST insurance! When the TMC was questioned about its history of allying with the BJP for power under Atal Bihari VajpayeeвЂ™s leadership, the party yet again resorted to attacking the Congress. This was not a one-off attack the party and its hired hand, Prashant Kishor, have been attacking the Congress consistently.

In the run-up to the next round of assembly elections, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee had, on October 30, accused the Congress of being indecisive and said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make gains as a result.

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