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marginal but still important role in these results”. Monday’s victories for the BJP in West Bengal, Assam and the small territory of Puducherry signal a return to the strong political momentum claimed
margin of victory. The implications are grave. India may have crossed from electoral distortion into mass disenfranchisement. Bengal is not merely another Indian state. Partitioned in 1947 on religious lines during the violent birth
Bengal had effectively gone into the election after a "mass disenfranchisement exercise". This, they said, had disproportionately affecting poor and minority voters, especially Muslims and migrant communities in border districts. Analysts say the exercise
marginal player. On Monday, that changed. Modi’s party won West Bengal. Early results from elections to the state’s legislature – which were held in April, but votes were counted on May 4 – show that