As India races towards a general election that many regard as the most consequential in decades, the level of political abuses of all sorts is rising
are on the run from a murder rap, what better place to take refuge than with the ruling party? Or so reckon Amit and Debu. Since February the two friends from the rice- and mango-growing district of Nadia have camped in the rickety building near the University of Calcutta that serves as the bustling West Bengal state headquarters for prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party .
Ms Banerjee’s party may wield fearsome street muscle, for instance, yet as a regional rather than national party it lacks other cards. Take money. With membership of more than 100m and with tycoons queuing for Mr Modi’s favour, thelast year sucked in four times more donations than the next five parties put together. In an election whose total cost has been estimated at $7bn-10bn, this makes a big difference.
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