Unable to find a leader, BJP banks on anti-incumbency to break into Bengal

From the Brahmaputra, it’s eastward to the Bhagirathi-Hooghly. Assam, through which the Brahmaputra flows, was a watershed for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2016. After years of fighting independently or in alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and other regional parties, the BJP fell short of just three seats in the Assembly, but took the help of the AGP, the Bodo People’s Front, and two other regional entities to set up a coalition government that it headed for the first time in Assam. It was the BJP’s first breakthrough in the Northeast. It has its sights set on