The Economic Times

Suvendu Adhikari to be West Bengal's new CM: How BJP used Mamata loyalist to complete its Ang-Bang-Kalinga trilogy

The BJP's political ascent in eastern India, mirroring Assam's success with Himanta Biswa Sarma, sees Suvendu Adhikari named West Bengal's next Chief Minister. Both leaders, former insiders of rival parties, became key BJP assets, demonstrating a strategy of leveraging influential defectors to penetrate entrenched regional politics.