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When Factionalism is Fatal: How Trinmul Congress lost the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha Seat

Amal Mandal

Affiliations:

Department of Political Science, Tufanganj College, P.O. New Town, Tufanganj, District; Cooch Behar, West Bengal, INDIA

While few general factors precipitated the ground-swelling, somewhere more crucial and immediate cause of loss of Lok Sabha seats for Trinamul Congress was due to factional feud spinning around personal enmity and domination.

Keywords:
Lok Sabha elections 2019, Cooch Behar constituency, Trinamool Congress, BJP, Mamata Banerjee, horizontal split, factional feud,

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