Shambhavi Thakur From the beginning of the epic eight-phase election schedule to the exit polls a month later, the talk was on whether the BJP would successfully topple the Trinamool Congress, led by incumbent chief minister Mamata Banerjee, and come to power in West Bengal. Large sections of the media, from their headquarters in Noida near Delhi or Lower Parel in Mumbai, had built up the expectation that this was going to be it: the Bengalis, and especially the Muslims and sickular, libtard âbhadralokâ among them, were going to be shown their place, which was at the feet of the Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan brigade.