Nearly a month after the BJP’s electoral triumph in West Bengal, two contrasting stories are emerging from the state. Neither is a new conversation in the saga that has, for decades, seen the subversion of institutional mechanisms by a political culture which has inhibited the state from realising the potential of its demography and geography. The Suvendu Adhikari government’s cabinet expansion on Monday is part of the first story. The priority given to sub-regional representation and the induction of figures like Kalita Maji — the MLA from Aushgram, till recently a domestic worker — indicate that aspiration and opportunity hold........

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