Suvendu-Abhishek feud keeps political temperatures high in West Bengal

Six months after the West Bengal Assembly election, the feud between Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader Abhishek Banerjee continues to dominate the State’s politics. The Assembly election defeat and the subsequent split in the Trinamool Congress (TMC), with a majority of its Lok Sabha MPs and MLAs breaking away from Mamata Banerjee, have posed an existential threat to the former Chief Minister and her nephew.

Mr. Abhishek, particularly, has come under fire from both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and critics of Ms.

Mamata. While the BJP has accused him of corruption during the TMC’s rule, party rebels have held him responsible for the electoral setback and cited his leadership as a reason for quitting the party.