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From red bastion to saffron surge: Can the Left still reclaim Bengal’s political soul?

The emphatic victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the latest West Bengal Assembly elections has not merely altered the arithmetic of power in the state; it has marked the culmination of a long ideological migration that began quietly more than a decade ago when the once-invincible Communist movement started losing its emotional contract with Bengal’s masses.