TMC starts regaining lost ground in Bengal using dual strategy against CAA

Party plays Muslim card in the southern part of the state and leans on rehabilitation to reach out to the hills

Riding the wave against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has started gaining lost ground it ceded during this year’s Lok Sabha polls to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

The BJP, in the meantime, has launched a counter offensive against the TMC in support of the amendment.

TMC supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been on the forefront in the political movement against CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), opposing it tooth and nail and has decided to intensify protests against the Act.

Political observer Sabyasachi Basu Roy Chowdhuri said this way the TMC