India, Aug. 3 -- It is the "beginning of the end" for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) national spokesperson Derek O'Brien has said. The Rajya Sabha member on Monday targeted the party over its performance in the Bankipur assembly bypoll in Bihar, where Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor was leading by a comfortable margin during the counting of votes as of 3:30 pm.

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"BEGINNING OF THE END," O'Brien wrote, using all-caps to press his point, on X.

He then sought to paint a series of pictures. "Scene I. Modi-Shah pluck out obscure MLA from Bihar to make him their rubber stamp National President. Scene II. Bankipur Assembly seat falls vacant, a seat BJP won by 52,000. Scene ...