BJP supporters break police barricades during clashes outside Calcutta University on Tuesday, May 14, 2019. (AP)This electoral season has been unprecedented in terms of political acrimony in Bengal. Unfortunately, the EC’s intervention — it invoked Article 324 of the Constitution to issue the directive — has not escaped scrutiny. The political ramifications of these developments are already discernible, with the chief minister accusing the EC of being partisan. The projection of victimhood could give the ruling party a stick with which to beat its principal rival.

Source: The Telegraph May 17, 2019 03:45 UTC