The election game in Bengal, where the BJP is storming the bastion of secular parties, is creating a new wave of speculations and perceptions in the poll-bound state. While the BJP projects Didi's TMC as perpetrators of 'cut-money' raaj, her biggest counter to fight the 'Double-engine' pitch of the Modi government has been 'Bengal will be ruled by its own.'
As we inch closer to the polls, one thing is certain: 'khela nishchoi hobe' (the game is, indeed, on).
Today's DH Sparks will focus on the 'Hard-fought battle in West Bengal Assembly Elections.'
Panellists:
1. Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Journalist and author, Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment
2. Prof. Abdul Matin, Asst. Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Jadavpur University
3. Prof. Iman Kalyan Lahiri, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University
4. Diptendra Raychaudhuri, Senior journalist, Moderator