As soon as the Bihar results arrive, expect the BJP to turn their sights full-time on West Bengal. The land of hilsa is where the party's founding father Syama Prasad Mookerjee was born but for the last 15 years the state has spurned every attempt by the BJP to net it.

Now, in the obstacle race that best describes the BJP’s decade long sprint for Bengal, the party has run into fresh hurdles. A state BJP MP recently wondered, publicly, if the party really wanted to dislodge Mamata Banerjee from power in the state. Another leader, currently in political tundra, agreed and dropped his own bombshell, saying BJP leaders, who came from other states as observers to Bengal ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections, had thrown away a sure-shot victory with their sexual and financial misdemeanors.

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