The allegation of ‘Setting’ between Modi and Didi in Bengal has repeatedly put the BJP into trouble in political debates. Is there really any nexus between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee? Is there such a hidden equation or formula in Bengal politics, due to which the talk of ‘Modi at the Center and Didi in Bengal’ is often in discussions between political corridors and people. The CPI (M) has been trying his best to confirm this charge. On the other hand, the BJP has been constantly denying this theory, but till now it has not been able to answer it properly. In this atmosphere, now a section of party workers feel that during the recently concluded Kaliganj assembly by -election, the BJP leadership has got a suitable reply to the ‘Setting’ theory. This class hopes that before the 2026 assembly elections, this response will be conveyed to the workers and common people as a reply to this theory and this will help a lot in changing the perception of people and workers towards the BJP.
What do people say at the tea shop?
On June 19, Kaliganj assembly seat in Nadia district was a by -election. During the campaign, the state BJP general secretary (organization) Amitabh Chakraborty went to Kaliganj to ensure organizational preparations. There a BJP worker asked him questions about the setting theory. Amitabh was holding a meeting with the divisional workers and leaders of the region. The worker there told him, everyone at the tea shop says that there is a setting between Didi and Modi. We are facing a lot of problems with such discussions. We are unable to explain the common people. On this, Amitabh gave the example of Odisha. He said that before Bengal, he was the BJP’s organization in -charge in Odisha. The then Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik used to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi every month and also took the offerings of Lord Jagannath for him. He further said- Everyone used to say that there is a setting between Naveen and Modi. Modi at the center, Naveen in the state. Many people in Odisha used to say that as long as the new is alive, the BJP will not come to power in Odisha, but the BJP remained adamant on its resolve to win there. The party has proved that the propagation of the setting was false by removing Naveen by removing Naveen. This will also be proved in Bengal.
What does BJP believe?
Such an example and answer of rejecting ‘Setting’ theory was never heard before the BJP. Whenever questions were raised about this for so long, BJP workers used to mention their various controversies with Trinamool and presented it as evidence of not setting. He used to talk about CBI-ED actions. On not giving account of the expenditure, he also reminded of stopping the amount of various central schemes. He gave examples of Trinamool’s ‘atrocities’ on BJP workers across the state, but he had no other concrete evidence. Many people in the BJP believe that Amitabh has been successful in giving ‘evidence’ in Kaliganj.
What did BJP state president say?
Before being elected state BJP president, Shamik Bhattacharya had said that the setting theory will have no role in deciding the results of the upcoming Bengal assembly elections. Shamik considers Amitabh’s example to be appropriate. According to him, the theory created by the CPI (M) will not be relevant in the 2026 assembly elections. He said that if someone can remove the Trinamool, it is the BJP. Every person of Bengal knows this. This fabricated theory will not have any effect on the 2026 election. As expected, Trinamool also has almost the same in this case. The party’s state vice-president Jayaprakash Majumdar questions whether votes can be obtained by creating such different theory on paper? If there is an open compromise or coalition with a party, then it is a different matter, but if it is not, then whom is the connivance with whom, can people be voted by telling such stories? Who created the setting theory? Mohammad Salim, the state secretary of the Setting Theory, says Mohammad Salim, “What Amitabh Chakraborty has said is not a counter fact.” This is actually to strengthen our principle. In Odisha, BJD and BJP never fought a political battle against each other and always together in Parliament. There was good relations between Modi-Navin. The BJP has swallowed many parties in this way. The same is going to happen in Bengal.
What did Mohammad Salim say?
In this state, the BJP has kept Trinamool in power so that the leftists cannot come to power. On the one hand she is maintaining Trinamool, on the other hand it is strengthening herself. When she understands that there is no need to keep the Trinamool anymore, she will remove it and then a part of the Trinamool will join the BJP. – These words of Mohammad Salim, State Secretary, CPI (M) CPI -M leader seem to be just theory.
