West Bengal-Clear Polarisation

Elections Cold Comfort for Congress(I) APART from the elections to the four state assemblies, there were byelections last week to seven Lok Sabha seats, including the re-poll in the Garhwal Lok Sabha constituency, and several state assembly seats. The results of these by-elections too provide some insights into the current state of the ruling party. If the Congress (I) has, relatively speaking, fared better than it had expected in the assembly elections