Suvendu Adhikari

Sinking Ship

Barely a month after the BJP’s historic landslide ended 15 years of Trinamool Congress rule, Mamata Banerjee’s once-invincible party is rapidly disintegrating into a spectacle of opportunism, defections and panic. The speed of the collapse has been breathtaking. The first...
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Drawn Lines

For years, India’s eastern frontier has been a study in political evasiveness. While past governments spoke of illegal immigration and border security, their actions rarely matched their rhetoric. That era now appears to be definitively ending. With the BJP now...
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A Prostration and a Political Revolution

Suvendu Adhikari’s visit to Belur Math heralds a tectonic shift in West Bengal’s political and cultural landscape. In one of his first acts after being sworn-in as the newly elected Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari visited the historic...
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The Architect of BJP’s Bengal Revolution

From student activism and the Nandigram movement to defeating Mamata Banerjee twice, Suvendu Adhikari emerged as the strategist and mass leader New Delhi: If there is one leader in West Bengal politics who has successfully combined the intensity of grassroots...
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Violent Endgame

The shocking murder of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s closest aide Chandranath Rath on a public road in Madhyamgram, immediately aftert he BJP scored a historic landslide in the West Bengal Assmebly election by toppling Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, is not...
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Learn to Accept Defeat, Ms. Banerjee

Writing this piece, I find myself thinking of Shakespeare’s Margaret. Those who have read the Henry plays or Richard III will understand why. Margaret rose from nothing to the heart of English royal power. She fought, she governed, and she...
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