The lynchpins of this electoral distress will be West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura, the three states of India with which Bangladesh shares significant borders. West Bengal is an active work-in-regress laboratory. The key focus, as far as Bangladesh is concerned, will remain West Bengal, India's largest Bengali-desh -- with Tripura and Assam following. In West Bengal there is an additional factor: Structured “mastanocracy.”The war for political supremacy in West Bengal has for long utilised violence as a way of life and livelihood. A large and boisterous Ram Navami procession -- then rare in West Bengal -- was choreographed with religious and ultra-nationalist slogans in Hindi (also rare in West Bengal) with several hundred sword- and machete-wielding Bengali youngsters.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 24, 2023 18:13 UTC