“The price of fish has never been this cheap since the partition of Bengal!” was the common refrain on the streets of Kolkata. Fish, as you know, is one of the staples of Bengali diet. It was the year of the fish for the households in Bengal, after a long decade of struggle. Local folklore goes that the Bengali families had never celebrated their daily meals as much as they did that year, even as the price of fish kept crashing in the market. Happy with their dietary success, a whole generation of Bengalis had suddenly turned positive. The morale was supposedly so high that an industrial truce was achieved and long standing disputes between trade unions and employers had seemingly been solved overnight!
This was the winter of 1971, a far cry from the previous decade of
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Rajiv Pratap Rudy is tied up in a battle of relative strengths with another US returned daughter of Lalu Prasad Yadav who has reportedly ran a very strong campaign. She has come back from Singapore not from US.A little bit of googling would have helped you.
Are BJP voters are moving away in its core area ? So far, it appears to be not the case. In peripheral states, BJP are gaining almost in all states. Is there a reason to believe that there would be dent in 303? If not where would gain of Bengal, Odisha, Andhra, Telangana, Tamilnadu and Kerala be set off. After reading all your analysis, it seems that 330 is reasonable figure for BJP. Am I optimistic or you are restraining yourself?