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This is the second and final part of a two-part piece on the political realities surrounding the split in the Trinamool Congress party. Read part one here. 

The numbers game in Delhi is different from that in Bengal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not have a majority on his own in the Lok Sabha and his government depends on the support of smaller National Democratic Alliance parties. Modi has managed to obtain outside support in 28 seats from the Telugu Desam Party under Chandrababu Naidu and the Janata Dal (United) under Nitish Kumar. Sadly, despite splitting the Aam Aadmi Party recently, its three Lok Sabha members have remained with their parent party.

Taking advantage of this situation, Suvendu Adhikari is preparing to gift-wrap some 20 Trinamool Lok Sabha MPs who are suddenly in love with the BJP and present them as his offering to Modi. He and a BJP minister who is tasked with breaking up the TMC at any cost (the pun is deliberate) have already achieved considerable success. They have located a motel – an obscure party in a remote state, that can act........

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