పశ్చిమ బెంగాల్లో 42 సీట్లలో ఎవరు గెలుస్తారు? || Who will win in West Bengal 42 seats? ||

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పశ్చిమ బెంగాల్లో 42 సీట్లలో ఎవరు గెలుస్తారు? || Who will win in West Bengal 42 seats? ||
Eastern front: On the electoral battle in West Bengal
Polarisation of votes in West Bengal is edging out the Left and the Congress
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nurtures high hopes in West Bengal, where it won 18 of the 42 seats, and 40% vote share in 2019. This dramatic rise from two seats in 2014 gave the party the confidence to present itself as the principal opposition in the 2021 Assembly polls, but the Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) stormed back to power for a third term. With 77 of the 294 Assembly seats, and a 38.1% vote share, the BJP came a distant second. This year, the polling in the State is spread across all seven phases of the general election, and the BJP is pulling out all stops in the hope it could improve its tally which could also compensate for any electoral loss elsewhere. The BJP is keeping the TMC on the defensive with allegations of corruption, the land grab and sexual assault at Sandeshkhali, and the school recruitment scam. The Calcutta High Court terminated about 25,000 teacher appointments which is a shot in the arm for the BJP. The TMC’s campaign against the BJP is centred on New Delhi’s stoppage of funds to the State under central schemes and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. It is also banking on its cash transfer schemes such as Lakshmir Bhandar for women. Highlighting the issue of women’s safety, the BJP has fielded a woman from Sandeshkhali, the constituency that saw reports of assault on women.
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