Battle for Bengal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in bloody struggle with local rival for votes in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal by abhiruproy30
KOLKATA - At an election rally in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a local leader from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party described how workers from the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress had disrupted a public meeting in January by destroying their vehicles.
The push has set him and the BJP on a collision course with firebrand politician Mamata Banerjee, the TMC leader and the state’s chief minister. To be sure, Modi could win the national election without taking many seats in West Bengal. What could have been a close contest has changed in recent weeks because of a suicide car bomb attack in Kashmir that killed 40 police officers. That led to an Indian warplane attack on what the Indian government said was a “terrorist” training camp in Pakistan, and subsequent retaliation by the Pakistanis.
The BJP’s West Bengal President Dilip Ghosh said police and other government officials were being used by Banerjee to thwart democracy in the state.
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