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Bengal RS bypolls: BJP may field three former TMC MPs

The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.

BJP’s Bengal push faces its hardest test

The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal over the past decade has been one of the most striking shifts in the state's political landscape, where the saffron outfit has pushed itself up from a one-time marginal force to emerge as the main Opposition.