After Bihar, BJP taunts Trinamool with ‘Now Bengal’ slogan

Within hours of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) edging previous the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar elections, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party introduced numerous victory rallies (Bijoy Michils) within the State.

On Wednesday, the social gathering’s social media and media cell toned down the celebrations and stated these occasions wouldn’t be known as victory rallies however (Bijoy Sammilani) victory gatherings as an alternative. Whatever identify must be attributed to those occasions, the victory in Bihar and the social gathering’s efficiency within the byelections throughout a number of States have enthused the BJP, feels political analyst and psephologist Biswanath Chakraborty.

Defections seemingly

“There are many in the Trinamool Congress who are testing waters and are keen to switch sides and join the BJP before the polls. In the BJP also, there are some disgruntled elements who were thinking of jumping to the Trinamool camp. But now we may only see more defections from the TMC to the BJP before the polls,” stated Prof. Chakraborty, head of the Department of Political Science at Rabindra Bharati University.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, who’s visiting districts of north Bengal, coined a brand new slogan for his social gathering at one such victory gathering — Ebar Bangla Parle Sambhla (Now Bengal, save should you can).

“The BJP started from the west and is now in the east and also northeast. We are knocking at the borders of Bengal. I will say only one thing … Ebar Bangla Parle Sambhla [Now Bengal, save if you can],” Mr. Ghosh stated, taunting the Trinamool Congress. Most of the office-bearers of the BJP, social gathering MPs and Central observers to the State additionally took to social media focusing on and taunting the Bengal’s ruling social gathering.

‘Mamata exposed’

“In democracy, people are supreme. The real face of Mamata Banerjee has been exposed before the people of Bengal. People are fed up with the Trinamool Congress government. The wind is blowing towards the BJP,” BJP nationwide basic secretary and observer to West Bengal, Kailash Vijayvargiya, stated on social media.

The Trinamool Congress responded, saying that it’s Mamata Banerjee who saved Bengal. “There are no police encounters in Bengal, no riots. People here live in peace. The jangalmahal [southwestern region] is peaceful and so are the hills. Dilip babu should think about what he is saying,” TMC chief and Minister Firhad Hakim stated. The Trinamool management, together with senior leaders like Saugata Roy, stated they have been hoping that the outcomes could be in favour of the Mahagathbandhan within the neighbouring State and it was unlucky that the NDA gained.

Political observers like Prof. Chakraborty really feel that it isn’t simply the keenness of the BJP that the TMC must be fearful however it ought to keep watch over the entry of events equivalent to Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) within the ballot fray within the State. Speculations of the AIMIM contesting the Bengal Assembly polls have been happening for a couple of years now, and after the social gathering’s efficiency within the Seemanchal area of Bihar such speculations have gained extra floor.

“Certain districts of the State because of their demography provide an advantage to the Trinamool Congress. The Muslim population has firmly backed the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls also. Any division of Muslim votes will bring eminent doom for the Trinamool,” Prof. Chakraborty stated.

While Mr. Owasi has given solely hints that his social gathering is perhaps thinking about Bengal polls, distinguished political events within the State have already began focusing on him.

“Muslims got fooled by him. The BJP used him. Those votes should have gone to the secular front but went to him. All secular parties should be cautious of vote splitter Owaisi Sahab,” stated State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. The Congress and the Left events are attempting to challenge themselves because the third various and events just like the AIMIM doesn’t pose a problem solely to the TMC but in addition to the Left and the Congress.