To dissect the election turmoil in West Bengal, we caught up with senior journalist Suman Chattopadhyay in this episode of Another Election Show. 

Chattopadhyay, who has been associated with several prominent newspapers and media outlets, including as editor with Anand Bazaar magazine and Bengali daily E Samay, keeps an eye on contemporary issues.

In this conversation, Chattopadhyay spoke elaborately on the state of the national media and the media under the Mamata Banerjee government, and their enmity with the BJP. He said Mamata has adopted the same policies as Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

Like the BJP, Mamata Banerjee has “created her own parallel media” in Bengal, said the journalist, calling it “Didi media”. On the political rise of the BJP in the state, he said that the Trinamool Congress’s “working style” was responsible for it.

Watch.