“BJP’s Task In Bengal Is Bigger Than Governance”, Swarajya, April 04, 2026
“West Bengal’s new government has a five-year mandate, but its real task will take a generation. Three successive regimes — British, Nehruvian, Communist, and then Trinamool — spent a hundred and fifteen years suppressing one of the most productive civilisations the modern world has seen. The BJP now has the first real opportunity to reverse that.
In December 1911, the British announced from the Delhi Durbar that they were moving their imperial capital out of Calcutta because, as Lord Curzon put it candidly to the House of Lords, they wished merely “to escape the somewhat heated atmosphere of Bengal.”
The voters of Bengal have just ended an arrangement that began on that day……”
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