India, Feb. 3 -- Poll-bound West Bengal got a few infrastructural projects in the latest budget tabled by Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1. However, many political pundits believe the announcement was not at par with pre-budget expectations when compared to Bihar in 2025. The Union budget allocated a bounty to Bengal's poll-bound neighbour that year.

While a section of political personalities and experts point out that the development underlines a backhanded acceptance by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that it may be difficult to dislodge the incumbent Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state in the forthcoming election, others argue that the Bihar and Bengal situations are not co...