In many ways, Assembly Election 2026 in West Bengal was truly historic. Segregation of society based on communal binary becoming the primary deciding factor in the poll results is truly unprecedented for the State. As if, issues like health, education and transportation were not enough important to decide the fate of the State, so people of west Bengal given more importance to upholding religious faith over anything else. At least if you closely follow the campaigning of ruling party TMC and the main opposition BJP. Then the mandate of people came, where TMC government get toppled by the BJP overwhelmingly. But even after such a thrashing defeat CM and TMC Supremo Mamta Bsanerjee blatantly refused to leave her chair defying all logic and turning her face against the basic democratic courtesy and norms. Although, one might argue that if she ever at all showed respect and moral conduct to parliamentary democracy. For her it was always ‘my way or highway’. During 15 yea...
From my viewpoint - Alok Halder