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We travelled through 6 assembly constituencies to find out how voters are doing to make their decision in #WestBengalElections2021.

The idea was to figure out which govt schemes have been effective & have reached the voters.

Here is what we found.
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West Bengal State Government’s schemes for women are effective.

The most popular schemes are all directed at women & they are responding positively. Women certainly have a good opinion about Mamata Banerjee.

But, there's a catch.

The general opinion seems to be, "Didi is fine, not her party workers."

We found multiple instances where local party workers have taken commissions on the side for people to get benefits from govt schemes.

People aren't amused. At all.

On the other hand, Modi's lockdown scheme is being mentioned everywhere.

Partically everyone we spoke to got Rs 1500 under the Jan Dhan Yojana during 3 months of lockdown. They also got free gas during that time, so the opinion about Modi is positive on this front.

This assembly election is going to be a test of scheme implementation. It's a state vs centre contest to convince the voters on who has the best pro-poor schemes.

Read the full report by me and @ParikshitSanyal on @newslaundry.

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newslaundry.com/2021/03/26/mod…

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