Can "Suvendu Model succeed in West Bengal" ?? -- And the implications .... :::: The 'east India model' would be a lethal campaign line for the BJP in 2029

Why Hindus felt marginalised in India ? The population figures were always overwhelmingly Hindu .. that is around 80 per eent. 

One issue, is the immensely distorted campaign and distorted version of history and culture. 

Modi had a boat ride : Poll campaign 2026 

Even after BJP's electoral success in West Bengal - there are some Christian intellectuals and others who try to sell extreme falsehood. The allegation ever since Suvendu Adhikari has become state's chief minister; is that - Hindus and especially BJP workers are attacking minorities at free will. 

".... it did not much matter which minority a given mob decided to target", -- went a line. West Bengal has about 27 plus Muslim population and the Left parties for three decades and the Mamata 'aapa' regime for 15 years between 2011 and 2026, believed that sheer Muslim appeasement is the real success Mantra. 

This boomeranged.

Of course, the BJP worked hard in West Bengal. It is also true, both the RSS and the Lotus party had charged the outgoing Trinamool Govt with fostering anti-national jehadi elements. But the charges were true in terms of public perception. How many cases were proved or not is entirely a different debate.  

Look at the way, Minorities "enjoy" things for granted. When they stand up for their tradition, heritage, religious shows etc --- these are hailed as symbols of Diversity, says a local BJP leader in North Bengal. 

He complained; -- "But when it comes to a Hindu festival - for decades theories and half-baked argument was sold that Diwali is anti-environment and brings in pollution in cities like Delhi. Crackers are bad." 

Only lately it came to light that even in Pakistan along Punjab state; there is seasonal environmental/pollution issues. During Covid lockdown as vehicles stayed indoors, pollution too was tolerable. 

Many Hindus for years under Left parties in West Bengal and Tripura and also at the national level thought or were made to believe that they could not be proud of the Hindu way of living. 

Hindus remained generally apologetic of Hindutva and I have intellectual friends - they would easily call Narendra Modi or even BJP leaders such as Uma Bharati and L K Advani 'communal'. 

The same yardstick would vanish when CPI-M goons killed Anandmargis in Kolkata or a PM, Rajiv Gandhi justified 1984 anti-Sikh massacre. 

BJP's man : Suvendu Adhikari 

In West Bengal, under Communists and later under Mamata; a sympathetic administration and manageable police force helped merciless attacks on Hindus during festivals in districts of 24 Parganas, Purba Bardhhaman and Bankura.

Even those violating traffic rules in Durgapur or even in Kolkaya were allegedly spared out if they were Muslims. 

The "sickular' media and Christian websites never bothered to talk about these. 

Why there is now an 'added importance' of West Bengal and the BJP Govt in the state? 

More than the BJP's election strategists, a section of Sickular intellectuals perhaps have understood the importance about this simple and even innocuous question. Thus goes a set of unfounded allegations from Christian leaders in the state --  

** That there is now 'mob violence' against microscopic minority - the Christians. It is also being pushed that by and large Christians were 'undisturbed' in West Bengal. 

This is indirect way of telling the voters that the erstwhile Left goons and Tolabazi-famous Mamata Banerjee and her party crooks were virtuous. 

** And The allegation also is that Muslims continue to be "prime target" of the BJP and Hindus. 

There is a deliberate spin around Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. 

Once upon a time : PM V P Singh, Advani and CPI-M leader Surjeet 

The essential reason is political.  The 2029 elections are not far away. 

And all detractors of the BJP are getting frustrated because the opposition parties are unable to do anything extra ordinary to impress voters that yes -- we (they) are ready to take on the BJP. 

The basic campaign against Modi and his Govt and also the NDA coalition remain that same as was in 2014 or after. 

The Congress remains confused and worse, it is still held hostage by Rahul Gandhi and his style of functioning. 

The issues, the Congress is trying to highlight in the next few months are unlikely to embarsass the saffron party or take away Modi's voters.

In other words, there is no political headway for the Opposition.

On the other hand, the BJP knows it would need 'new ideas' to appeal to the voters. 

In 2014 and even in 2019 - largely the so-called 'Gujarat Model' worked for Team Modi-Shah in terms of garnering votes. 

The Prime Minister has set new targets - Viksit Bharat by 2047. He had also set a target to end the monopoly of western/English education system by 2035.  

These appeal effectively to the BJP voters. 

Delivering the Ramnath Goenka Lecture, PM Modi on Nov 17, 2025, had said that the crime committed by Macaulay against India's cultural and educational foundations will complete 200 years in 2035.

 "I want to appeal to the entire country: over the next decade, we must resolve to free ourselves from the mindset of slavery that Macaulay imposed on India. The coming 10 years are extremely important".  Modi also said that when a nation fails to honour itself, it ends up rejecting its indigenous ecosystem, including the Made in India manufacturing framework. 

Since then, the attack on RSS has increased manifold. The Jantar Mantar protest was engineered around the issue of Education and the political target was Home Minister Amit Shah.  

The BJP strategists have sensed these correctly. They admit probably the 'Gujarat Model' can no longer fetch you fresh voters especially after you have three BJP chief ministers in West Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.  

The 'east India model' would be a lethal campaign line for the BJP in 2029. 

The north eastern states as a bloc and that including Assam cannot be actually presented as a 'model' to the rest of India. 

Hence, the BJP would need Suvendu Adhikari to succeed. So that, it has something called 'east India model'. 

The priorities for the BJP dispensation in West Bengal will be to perform. But it is easier said than done.  The BJP detractors will continue to find holes in the state government's governance model. There will be broadsheet English tabloids to ridicule them. There will be Sickular, Muslim and Christian (self-styled champions) of Sickularism to create disturbances.  

It is for the first time - in fifty years - there is Double Engine government(s) in Kolkata. Left played anti-Delhi politics for decades and the illusion that she can become Prime Minister of India kept Mamata Banerjee always in confrontational stance against Manmohan Singh Govt and later the NDA dispensation. 

Land issues (land grabbing) is a primary challenge for the new BJP govt. There are other challenges too -- Extortion/Cut Money culture. At the local level, it was a booming industry promoted by Left 'dadas' and later hijacked and taken to newer heights by the Mamata regime. 

Suvendu is expected to act tough, decisive and transparent in these multiple fronts. If investments can really be brought in - there wil be job and expected sea change.  

Anti-development and anti-BJP forces will continue their line of propaganda -- that there is 'no slide back' on the radicalization of the state under Hindutva forces. 

All these will ought to be handled in much systematic and tougher measures. They might have voted for BJP and ousted Mamata; but by 'mind' there are an overwhelming number or people - old and young- who may still find it fashionable to call themselves Liberal. 

They even may take pride in organisations like All India Students Association (AISA) and its new found campaigner.  

North Bengal - Now BJP has clear upperhand 

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