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The TMC on Friday launched a counterattack on PM Narendra Modi’s claim that the BJP’s sweeping Bihar win has “paved the way to end jungle raj” in West Bengal, dismissing it as a “pure illusion” and asserting that Mamata Banerjee will return with a 250-seat mandate in 2026.

TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said Modi’s remark that “just as the Ganga flows from Bihar to Bengal, the BJP’s victory will flow there too”, betrayed a “poor understanding of Bengal’s political chemistry”. “People of Bengal have repeatedly rejected BJP’s politics of hate,” Ghosh said. PTI

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