India, Aug. 16 -- BJP cadres question growing role for former Trinamool leaders in Bengal's changing political order.

In the tea stalls of College Street and the mofussil bazaars of West Bengal alike, a single question has begun to needle the BJP's 100-day narrative of change: if "paribartan" meant turning the page on the Trinamool Congress, why does the new establishment seem so eager to turn to many of the very same names?

The steadily warming relationship between the Adhikari Government and two breakaway Trinamool formations - the "rebel but majority" faction of MLAs led by Assembly Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, and the Lok Sabha bloc of 20 former TMC MPs who have regrouped as the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (N...