TMC is fielding ‘Bihari babu’ Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol LS seat, which it has never won. The party is aiming for non-Bengali votes and a more diverse image, TMC leaders say.
The overt religious assertion by Hindus in Bengal, through celebration of Ram Navami & spurt of Hanuman temples, is seen as an answer to Muslim 'appeasement' by Mamata Banerjee.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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