The West Bengal elections are due in 2021. Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress have been in power for about a decade and won the last election convincingly with nearly 45% of the vote share. In that same election, the Left parties led by CPI (M), which ruled the State for nearly 3 decades with Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, followed with about 20%. The BJP, which hasn’t been historically strong in the State has made tremendous progress and even won 40% of the vote share and 18 seats from Bengal in the 2019 general elections. Aside, we have the Indian National Congress, which is another key player in the mix.
Plenty of factors in play right now. Aside from the coronavirus pandemic the state also recently experienced the devastation of Cyclone Amphan. There is also the backdrop of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and The National Register of Citizens (NRC). To discuss what will be an interesting battle for power we have political strategy experts and commentators Abhishek Paul, Rohit Jayaraman, and Rangesh Sridhar joining us on this episode of the Bharatvaarta podcast. Listen in as we deep dive into what strategies the various parties will adopt and how things might pan out in the run up to the Elections.
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