Bengal bypolls: BJP looks to build on LS gains,TMC in search of lost ground

The BJP is attempting to unseat the Mamata Banerjee government from power in the state

The November 25 by-polls to three Assembly seats in West Bengal will be the first litmus test for the TMC and the BJP since the Lok Sabha polls in the state.

The by-elections will be an indication of which way political winds are blowing in the state.

It will be the first electoral contest between the BJP and TMC since this year's parliamentary polls, in which the saffron party bagged 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, four less than that of the ruling Trinamool Congress.

The BJP is attempting to unseat the Mamata Banerjee government from