Kolkata, July 10 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's Rajya Sabha bypoll candidate and former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sushmita Dev on Friday said the opposition party in Bengal would not be able to revive itself unless it introspected and acknowledged its mistakes.

Speaking to ANI, Dev said the TMC owed an explanation for not actively campaigning in the Falta bypoll despite demanding that elected representatives who switch parties resign and seek a fresh mandate.

"In the past, Falta gave votes in abundance to Trinamool. Today, there is a fight between two sides over the party symbol 'Flowers and Grass'. The TMC candidate who used to refer to himself as 'Pushpa' ran away, but the party symbol was on the EVM. Congress, CPM, and Suvendu - a...