New Delhi: In the grand Indian political amphitheatre, Bengal has surpassed its counterparts. But even by Trinamool Congress’s benchmark, last week's WhatsApp-fuelled internal brawl smacked less of House of Cards and more of Bigg Boss: Lok Sabha Edition.

It all began—where else—but on WhatsApp, the new war room for India’s political elite. Somewhere between discussing election strategy and forwarding good morning messages with floating lotuses and raging suns, senior TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee allegedly went full throttle on colleague Mahua Moitra. The provocation? A tiff over a signature sheet, political etiquette, and apparently... fluency in English.

Banerjee, known for wielding his tongue like a medieval mace, accused Moitra of trying to have him arrested at the Election Commission. His crime: He had the audacity to question her. Her crime: Daring to be articulate! "Just because she sounds like the BBC doesn’t mean she can treat me like the help!" he fumed, possibly as he chewed a thesaurus. And then came the........

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