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Mamata Banerjee, known as Didi and also ‘the stormy petrel of West Bengal politics’ is fighting back against a determined BJP led by prime minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, the latter of who are absolutely determined to wrest the state from ‘Didi’. She came to power in 2011 by uprooting the Marxist-led Left Front which was in power for 34 years since 1977. In the 2011 election Mamata’s TMC won 227 out of the 297 seats. She won again in 2016 and is seeking a hattrick in 2021. However, this time the TMC is no longer invincible or unbeatable and is in crisis after several close confidantes of Didi joined the BJP. With polls being around the corner, the ruling TMC and the BJP have pulled up their socks and are leaving no stones unturned to woo the voters. The 2021 West Bengal assembly election is crucial for Mamata as well as the BJP. The Congress and the Marxists are no longer in the picture as the BJP has been making inroads in the state after poaching leaders from other parties. Time and tide is no longer on Mamata’s side and she is as desperate as the BJP for power in the state. Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have been targeting Bengal is because they want a big footprint in the east. The BJP has, over the last nine years, been trying to make inroads into West Bengal. It has been persistent in its efforts to gain seats and votes in the state. In 2011, the BJP contested 289 of the 294 seats, but drew a blank and ended up with a vote share of 4.06 per cent. In the 2016 assembly elections, the party contested 291 of the 294 seats, and ended up winning just three seats with a vote share of 10.6 per cent. However, persistence paid off in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,when the BJP won 18 of the 42 seats and raised its vote share to 40.64 per cent. In 2019, the BJP’s five years’ of sustained campaign helped bring down TMC’s seats in the Parliament , despite which it managed to retain 22 of the 42 seats. In 2019, Mamata retained 44 per cent of the vote share. The vote shares appear equally shared and the BJP is determined to tilt the balance in its favour. A war of words has erupted over Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to speak at a function in Kolkata on Saturday in protest against chanting of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by some audience. This happened at the government programme where prime minister Narendra Modi was the prominent speaker at the Parakram Diwas celebration event on the occasion of Netaji Subash Chandra Bos’s 125th birth anniversary, at Victoria Memorial in Kolkata on January 23. While Banerjee came down heavily on the BJP, the latter accused her of pandering to the Muslims who constitute 30 per cent of the population in the state, ahead of the assembly elections. Both Mamata and the BJP are going to use every trick in the book to win the election ‘by hook or by crook’. Mamata is facing the onslaught of the BJP government at the centre and a hostile governor in the state. The people of Bengal will decide and the Bengal polls could well turn into a bloody battleground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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