As the Lok Sabha elections approach and the industrial sector in West Bengal’s Asansol continues to dissolve, BJP MP Babul Supriyo’s chances of a second term look bleak. The problems facing Supriyo are symptomatic of the ones that have been haunting his party on a national level for some time now.

The arrest of Suman Chattopadhyay in the iCore chit fund scam failed to make headlines in any Bengali newspapers – marking a stark difference from the infamous Saradha scam. What explains this silence?