In spite of the BJP paid media hype, BJP was no match for Mamata Banerjee’s juggernaut. How did Didi manage this feat? When we look back; we find that 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal were bitterly fought. The Bharatiya Janata Party marshaled all its resources, pumping in huge sums of money, bringing in national leaders, influencing election arrangements, and getting large sections of the national media to portray it as the favorite. Moreover, with the help of the then shameless CEC- Mr. Sunil Arora, BJP played every dirty trick to ousted Mamata Banerjee. In the end, it all came to naught. The BJP fell well short of victory. The Trinamool Congress swept the state, winning 48% of the vote and 73% of seats – its best performance ever*. Professor of economics at the London School of Economics – Dr. Maitreesh Ghatak; had opined that welfare web Mamata Banerjee is in fact so vast that it has pushed the growth rate of the state’s rural per capita consumption expenditure as well as po