As West Bengal moves towards the second phase of elections on April 18, all eyes are fixed on the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the newly emergent opposition, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP).
With 42 Lok Sabha seats, Bengal ranks among the key states the BJP is concentrating on. The party, which before 2014 was outside the electoral pale, now hopes to substantively increase its tally. Currently, the BJP has two Lok Sabha MPs in the state. With 34 MPs, the TMC is clearly holding the electoral sway, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s tally has crashed to two, and the Congress’s to four.
In 2011, the political ground in Bengal shifted in a major way, when the CPI(M)-led Left Front government, after uninterruptedly ruling Bengal for 34 years, ceded power to the TMC led by Mamata Banerjee.
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As West Bengal moves towards the second phase of elections on April 18, all eyes are fixed on the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the newly emergent opposition, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP). With 42 Lok Sabha seats, Bengal ranks among the key states the BJP is concentrating on. The party, which before 2014 was outside the electoral pale, now hopes to substantively increase its tally. Currently, the BJP has two Lok Sabha MPs in the state. With 34 MPs, the TMC is clearly holding the electoral sway, while the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’s tally has crashed to two, and the Congress’s to four. In 2011, the political ground in Bengal shifted in a major way, when the CPI(M)-led Left Front government, after uninterruptedly ruling Bengal for 34 years, ceded power to the TMC led by Mamata Banerjee.
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