WEST BENGAL-Beyond the Triumph

Congressmen have rebelled against C B Gupta in the past and even today they are looked upon with suspicion.
The prospective Congress Government cannot ignore the strength of the Opposition led by Charan Singh, the BKD leader. The emergence of BKD as a formidable regional party needs explanation. While the urban poor (workers, sweepers and rickshaw- pullers) and lower and middle classes were influenced by BKD's promise of 1