There are elections. And there is an orchestrated assault.
The 2026 Bengal Assembly elections don’t look like a conventional democratic contest, the usual rollicking face-off between political parties.
What is unfolding is far more stark, unsettling and even chilling, bearing grim implications for the future of democracy in India. In Bengal we’re seeing a systematic alignment of institutions all ranged against a single elected leader, and a single party.
It is Mamata Banerjee versus the Establishment. Mamata Banerjee versus the System. Mamata Banerjee versus the entire Narendra Modi-Amit Shah-headed Centre.
