The West Bengal assembly elections are just months away now. 2026 is knocking, and the Bharatiya Janata Party is dancing around like a peacock that just won Bihar on the back of Nitish Kumar . They truly believe they can finally dislodge Mamata Banerjee and breach the Trinamool Congress fortress.

Narendra Modi declared that just as the Ganga flows from Bihar into Bengal, so will the BJP's victory parade follow the holy river and sweep Didi away. Khoob baalo metaphor baat and that's a big but. The reality is hard, political reality harder. Granted that the BJP is a party that knows how to fight elections: all the might, all the money, all the machinery, deployed like an army on steroids. But is it really that simple? The Ganga is deeper as it goes further, and the undercurrent is m

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