Kolkata/IBNS, May 30 -- Eighty MLAs, about 41% vote share and 42 parliamentarians would have been a lucrative tally for any party to sit in the opposition bench in a state as big as West Bengal, but it seems like game over for Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress.

A single poll defeat in 15 years, and Trinamool has plunged into a daily spectacle of dissent, infighting and revolts, in what increasingly looks like the prelude to a virtual disintegration.

When illegal street hawkers were evicted from railway stations and unauthorised constructions bulldozed, Left leaders rushed to the streets in protest-but Banerjee was seen nowhere on the ground.

As widely predicted by several analysts in the run-up to the 2026 Assembly Elections, TMC no...