UNI SPECIALBiswabrata GoswamiKrishnagar, May 5 -- In what is being viewed as one of the sharpest political reversals for the ruling Trinamul Congress in West Bengal's border belt, Nadia district has delivered a near-sweeping mandate to the Bharatiya Janata Party, exposing deep organisational fractures within the TMC.

With the BJP capturing 14 of Nadia's 17 Assembly constituencies - five more than its 2021 tally - the verdict marked not merely an electoral defeat for the Trinamul Congress but a dramatic restructuring of political equations in a district long shaped by refugee politics, Matua influence, border anxieties and communal-demographic undercurrents.

The result assumes greater political significance because Nadia has historically f...