Vandita Mishra writes: After West Bengal verdict, a new moment calls for a new Opposition politics
Readings of the West Bengal election results, with the BJP sweeping to power in a state it had long coveted, and Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress losing its bastion of 15 years, have swung between “Hindu consolidation” and “anti-incumbency”, when not pointing to the “SIR”. All three explanations have truth in them. But all three are…