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The Ganga’s course from Bihar to Bengal is not merely geographical. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invocation of this metaphor on Bihar’s result day signals a political current that has already begun to flow eastward. The BJP has activated its West Bengal strategy not in the afterglow of victory, but in anticipation of it. Amit Shah’s repeated visits to Kolkata, the quiet mobilisation of booth committees across 70,000 polling stations, and the formation of a five-zone organisational structure suggest a party that was never waiting for Bihar’s verdict to sound the battle cry for Bengal. Not after the rude awakening of 2021, when the saffron party was confident of victory, but faced a drubbing at the hands of the TMC.

Modi’s declaration that the Ganga flowing from B

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