The West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 results declared a historic win for Mamata Banerjee-led TMC.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's TMCwere head-to-head and ran a tight race.
Where Modi-Shah duo campaigned aggressively for the WestBengal polls, Banerjee alone managed to strategically sweep up the seats in theState. When BJP dumped all its resources in the Bengal elections, Mamatamanaged to save not only her government in Bengal, is also moving towardswining with an overwhelming majority.
Almost all the Union Ministers including PM Modi, andHome Minister Amit Shah addressed rallies in Bengal. But Mamata Banerjee hasovershadowed the entire BJP brigade. Analyzing Mamata’s win, the expertsclaimed 4Ms to be the secrete strategy.
These 4M are Matua community, Muslims, Mahila (women),and Mamata herself. Ironically, half of these M was part of BJP’s strategyagainst Banerjee. It was hoped that these M would be the reason for BJP’s winin the Bengal elections. However, the situation turned upside down andbenefitted Mamata Banerjee.
Matua Community
The community has about 2 crores of population. To turnthe community to its side BJP leader and Prime Minister of the country visitedBangladesh to worship in the community's temple. However, trends suggestworshipping did not work well and people of the Matua community still stand byMamata Banerjee.
Muslims
Where Mamata Banerjee asked the Muslims of the state tostick by her side, PM Modi hoped that witnessing Mamata’s appeals to Muslims, alarge number of Hindus would vote for him. He only appealed to the Hindu communityto vote, resulting in BJP’s defeat.
Mahila (Women)
In this year’s Assembly Elections in Bengal, a largenumber of voters happened to be women. BJP hoped that this enthusiasm of womenvoters would be for their candidates but it also turned out to be the oppositeof BJP’s expectations.
Mamata Banerjee
BJP tried all ways to tarnish the image of MamataBanerjee. As Mamata opposes the chanting of Jai Shri Ram for any politicalcause, BJP tried to label her anti-Hindu and called her Muslim. However, Mamatatackled the situation by saying she’s Brahmin. BJP continued to attack Mamatabut Mamata kept countering the attacks by mention Modi-Shah as outsiders andcalling her the Daughter of Bengal and Daughter of Earth.
With a victory against BJP’s powerful election machinery,Mamata Banerjee has sent a message across the nation that the invincibleModi-Shah duo can be defeated and she has done so single-handedly.