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Podcast: Bharatvaarta
Episode: #020 - Bharatvaarta | Battle for Power in West Bengal | Elections 2021 | Deep Dive into Political Strategy of Trinamool, BJP, INC, & Left Parties
Description: 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 an...