India, July 11 -- With less than a year to go for another round of prestige fight between saffron poster boy PM Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the latter's backyard, the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) introduced a long awaited rejig in the topmost rung of the state unit, which aspires to dethrone the powerful Trinamool Congress (TMC) but reels under infighting and poll defeats over the last five years.

BJP, which is currently in power in 19 states alone or in an alliance, is aware that the 2026 assembly elections won't be a cakewalk, no matter how corruption, law and order and sexual violence against women roil the state, where the TMC from Panchayat to Parliament hold sway for at least 15 years.

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