Bengal polls 2021: Whoever wins, trouble and chaos lurk
Many are actually petrified that nothing can hold back the BJP if the quintessentially secular bastion of Bengal capitulates
Jawhar Sircar
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Published 01.05.21, 12:26 AM
One has never seen people in other states and cities of India so genuinely bothered about elections in Bengal. Many are actually petrified that nothing can hold back the BJP if the quintessentially secular bastion of Bengal capitulates.
Equally eager are several others to ensure that it does crumble, as it has held out far too long and delayed the patriotic homogenisation of a Hindu Rashtra.
Many also believe that India has already paid a heavy price because the only two who have monopolised decision-making in Delhi, by systematically disempowering ministers and bureaucrats, were too obsessively busy in Bengal to find time to tackle the coronavirus.