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‘The city of joy’ erupted with joy when 49 years of mafia rule ended. The verdict in these elections not just electoral. It is moral. Through the last few decades, share of manufacturing in WB crashed from 27% to under 5%. Income levels fell from 127% of the national average to 84%. The RG Kar murder, Sandeshkhali, 25,753 cancelled teacher jobs. This is what Bengal lived through. Against this, stood a record of another kind. Four crore 21 lakh houses completed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana over the past decade. Fifteen crore tapwater connections under Jal Jeevan Mission, against a base of 3 crore in 2019. Roughly 55 crore beneficiaries under Ayushman Bharat. Direct Benefit Transfer rendering obsolete the leakages that once defined every welfare programme in Bengal. This was the floor on which every BJP karyakarta in Bengal stood when she asked for votes. A cultural and economic renaissance of the state that gave the country its first industrial belt, its commercial capital, and the early architects of national administration awaits us. My piece in Indian Express today..