Aggregating TMC, Congress, and Left votes as a unified “anti-BJP” bloc is a classic post-defeat rationalization…those parties competed against each other, and there’s no guarantee their voters are transferable. The claims about SIR deletions and counting irregularities are mere allegations, as she herself concedes, they’re untested in court; an election petition over a 316-vote margin in one seat doesn’t invalidate a 200+ seat result.
And the Indira Gandhi parallel is the kind of historical analogy that’s suggestive but proves nothing… every losing side believes it’s in its 1973 moment.
Post-defeat opinion pieces by party politicians aren’t meant to be psephology; they’re morale documents, written as much for demoralized cadres as for neutral readers.
What kind of world are we living in?
Aggregating TMC, Congress, and Left votes as a unified “anti-BJP” bloc is a classic post-defeat rationalization…those parties competed against each other, and there’s no guarantee their voters are transferable. The claims about SIR deletions and counting irregularities are mere allegations, as she herself concedes, they’re untested in court; an election petition over a 316-vote margin in one seat doesn’t invalidate a 200+ seat result.
And the Indira Gandhi parallel is the kind of historical analogy that’s suggestive but proves nothing… every losing side believes it’s in its 1973 moment.
Post-defeat opinion pieces by party politicians aren’t meant to be psephology; they’re morale documents, written as much for demoralized cadres as for neutral readers.
As always, cantankerous and cacophonous.
Pity what is happening to the TMC.
Okay, madam. Best wishes to you, Goddess Mamata, Sonia mata, and Rahul baba.