The turmoil in the Trinamool Congress after the election in West Bengal, leading to a rebellion by a large number of its MLAs and MPs, is perhaps not a surprising phenomenon in Indian politics. But the fact that a party with a 40.8 per cent vote share lost so badly in terms of seats and is breaking up as a consequence is a disturbing electoral absurdity. The BJP, which managed to get 207 seats out of 294, had a vote share of only 45.84 per cent. The editorial (‘In TMC’s implosion, a broader warning’, IE, June 11) does not address this absurdity that distorts Indian electoral democracy. It simply asks opposition parties a question: What do you stand for? Well, it is easy to ask this and similar questions. But the presumption that secularism has a scarred history and “cries of........

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