Asia Sentinel

Share this post

Modi’s BJP fails to win West Bengal

www.asiasentinel.com

Modi’s BJP fails to win West Bengal

Over-long election campaign continued during Covid surge

May 3, 2021
∙ Paid
1
1
Share

By: John Elliott

Narendra Modi has lost his bid to extend the Bharatiya Janata Party’s power to West Bengal after leading a high-profile and unnecessarily long state assembly election campaign, where he addressed mammoth unprotected political rallies as the Covid-19 surge swept across the country. 

This diverted him from running the national government at…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2023 Asia Sentinel
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing