Bengal election results 2021: Overbearing presence of BJP national brass didn’t work, feel state netas

Between February and April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah frequented Bengal 38 times — Modi 17 times, Shah 21 times — addressing gatherings once or twice a week to win a state that is the birthplace of the BJP’s guiding light, Syama Prasad Mukherjee. It didn’t work. Instead, state-level leaders conceded on Sunday that the frequent visits and repeated assertions that BJP would win 200+ seats in Bengal typified a brand of “aggression” that did not go down too well with the voters