Whatever be the outcome!
According to different media houses, India has never witnessed such an aggressive state election since independence like this 2021 assembly election of West Bengal. And that election is finally over! A lot of foul play, a lot of mudslingings, a lot of horse-tradings and of course killings too. However besides the dirty horse-trading which has not been this shamelessly aggressive before there was another thing Bengal politics witnessed this year, and how, religion and caste-based polarisation in politics. This particular style of politics is not new in India and is rampant in different Northern, Southern and Western states but with the years of Left and other secular rules, this style of politics did not find acceptance in the state. The election might be over, the people who polarised might not come to power but what will stay back is the bitterness. That is where the struggle starts, to overcome this hurdle and get back to how things used to be. India is like a continent where each st