Mamata - Ghosal, Jayanta
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In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the plot. How did this happen? Like Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata who was surrounded from all sides, the BJP endeavoured to besiege the Bengal CM and her party with 'weapons' such as the machinery of the central government, the Election Commission, central paramilitary forces, investigative agencies, the state governor, parliamentarians, financial clout, and most importantly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's undivided attention. Unlike Abhimanyu, though, Mamata…mehr

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In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the plot. How did this happen? Like Abhimanyu in the Mahabharata who was surrounded from all sides, the BJP endeavoured to besiege the Bengal CM and her party with 'weapons' such as the machinery of the central government, the Election Commission, central paramilitary forces, investigative agencies, the state governor, parliamentarians, financial clout, and most importantly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's undivided attention. Unlike Abhimanyu, though, Mamata Banerjee knew her way out. The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors. He found a massive gap in the BJP's understanding of Bengali identity, which Mamata was able to exploit. An 'overdose' of central intervention, ranging from paramilitary forces to intelligence agencies to target key TMC leaders, added to the BJP's disconnect with voters. Increasingly, the state felt the divide between New Delhi and Bengal grow. The book details how Mamata was successfully able to portray herself as the 'daughter of Bengal' who worked tirelessly for the state's poor and disadvantaged. With the state election under her belt, what would be Mamata's path to the general elections of 2024?
Autorenporträt
Jayanta Ghosal born in 1962 has been a political journalist for the past four decades. He has worked for the Bengali newspapers Ananda Bazar Patrika and Bartaman TV channels ABP News India TV and is now consulting editor India Today group. Most of his life has been spent in newsrooms. A journalist writer teacher and speaker he is a student of the history politics and culture of West Bengal and eastern India. He has authored several books in Bengali about the region and is also a biographer of West Bengal's chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Arunava Sinha translates classic modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction from Bangladesh and India into English. He also translates fiction from English into Bengali. Over sixty-five of his translations have been published so far in India the UK and the USA. His recent translations include The Sickle by Anita Agnihotri Khwabnama by Akhtaruzzaman Elias and Imaan by Manoranjan Byapari. He was born and grew up in Kolkata and lives and writes in New Delhi. He teaches at Ashoka University and is the books editor at Scroll.in.