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Shekhar Gupta reflects on the political landscape of West Bengal ahead of the 2026 elections, revisiting his observations from 2016.

A day before 2026 West Bengal Election verdict, ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta takes you back to his travels across the state in 2016. Watch #WritingsOnTheWall from 2016 on camera, where Shekhar Gupta read the big political message in West Bengal— Realignment.----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/sg-writings-on-the-wall/writings-on-the-bengal-wall/544437/

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Host: Shekhar Gupta

Topics covered

• West Bengal politics
• elections
• political realignment
• Shekhar Gupta
• 2016 election analysis

Keywords

• West Bengal
• elections
• politics
• Shekhar Gupta
• realignment
• 2016
• 2026

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Places: West Bengal

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