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    Detailed perspectives on developments in South Asia​​

    219 : Reading the West Bengal Panchayat Poll Results

    Ronojoy Sen, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS

    2 August 2013

    Elections to the panchayat - comprising the three tiers of village, block and district of a state in India - often go unnoticed at the national level. That the recent panchayat elections in West Bengal, which were won convincingly by the governing Trinamool Congress Party, made news is due to several reasons.