India's ruling party takes election battle to West Bengal
KOLKATA, India (AP) ” India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken his ruling party’s fight to the state of West Bengal, where it hopes to retain a majority in staggered general elections concluding this week by diluting the strength of a formidable opponent, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The battle pitting the Bharatiya Janata Party’s divisive Hindu nationalism against Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress Party big-tent politics has come to a head on India’s eastern bottleneck of West […]
