Kamal Ghorui
Amit Shah shares sunset video, says “sun of TMC’s corruption, hooliganism has set” as Bengal Phase I polling ends
NEW DELHI: Amid contrasting interpretations by rival camps of the highest-ever turnout in the first phase of Bengal assembly polls on Thursday, a post on X by Union minister Amit Shah conveyed the upbeat mood within the BJP over its prospects.Shah, who is in West Bengal and will remain there till April 27 to oversee his party’s campaign, posted a video of the setting sun as polling ended and said, “The sun of TMC’s corruption and hooliganism has set.”BJP has framed the election as a vote against “corruption and lawlessness” on CM Mamata Banerjee’s watch.TMC, on the other hand, interpreted the turnout as an expression of people’s anger against BJP over SIR and the unprecedented deployment of central forces, issues it has framed to the electorate as the blatant undermining of Bengal’s identity by “outsiders”.
