The opposition parties asked the BJP to reconcile with its defeat in the Assembly elections and accused Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar of acting like a BJP leader. “He is the real leader of the Opposition in Bengal,” senior RJD leader Manoj Kumar Jha said. “Probably the Delhi sultanate is not able to deal with the kind of defeat they had in Bengal. They are not able to come to terms with the defeat after such a high-decibel campaign,” Jha told The Indian Express. On the arrests, he said, “it is known that the government is using all central agencies for political motive.

Source: Indian Express May 17, 2021 21:33 UTC