Are crossovers and dissidents weakening the BJP from within in West Bengal?

The problem with the BJP in West Bengal, according to party insiders and political commentators alike, is a lack of leaders and its reliance on defections, majorly from the TMC and the Left Front

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Avishek Rakshit Kolkata

6 min read Last Updated : Apr 18 2019 | 2:09 AM IST

At a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has outpaced the Congress, the Left Front and other parties in West Bengal to become the largest opposition party in this state which can take Mamata Banerjee-founded Trinamool Congress (TMC) head on in the Lok Sabha and the 2021 state elections, divisions within the party, can weaken it from the inside.

The problem with the BJP in West Bengal, according to party insiders and political commentators alike, is a lack of leaders and its reliance on defections, majorly from the TMC and the Left Front. In the run-up to the 2019