Kolkata: With the assembly elections in West Bengal just a few months away, both the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party in the state were hit by a rebellion recently – by a legislator and a parliamentarian respectively.

Abhijit Ganguly, a BJP member of the Lok Sabha from West Bengal, has embarrassed the saffron party itself with a series of media-interviews, openly expressing doubt if the party high-command was really keen to pose any significant challenge to the TMC in the state and oust Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party from power. He also said that the BJP would not be able to win the elections in West Bengal by deploying leaders from New Delhi and other northern states, ignoring the competent ones in the state itself.

The TMC, on the other hand,

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