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00:00Well, she used to be one of the fiercest critics of the Modi government.
00:08But you may have noticed that recently, Mamata Banerjee isn't as loud or as vocal as she
00:12used to be.
00:13There are many reasons for this.
00:16The West Bengal Chief Minister, for one, is facing a series of electoral setbacks after
00:21the West Bengal Assembly election win in 2021.
00:24Perhaps the party got overconfident at the time and decided to accelerate its national
00:29expansion plans.
00:30Except, they didn't do well.
00:31They got a drubbing in Goa, and in the recently concluded Assembly polls in the Northeast,
00:37they did pretty badly, despite being the principal opposition in the state of Meghalaya, where
00:41they ended up with just five seats.
00:44The second factor at the moment that's at play are the corruption allegations that have
00:48dogged the Trinamool Congress for more than a year now.
00:51Senior ministers of the party, officials associated with the government have been arrested in
00:56a series of cases, and all of this has put Mamata Banerjee on the back foot.
01:01In fact, the ED, the Enforcement Directorate, has also questioned her nephew and senior
01:05party leader Abhishek several times in an alleged coal smuggling case.
01:10Now, Mamata has also gone a step further and declared that she'll be contesting the 2024
01:15general elections on her own, that her party will not go into any alliance, effectively
01:20putting a stop to talks on opposition unity.
01:23What does all of this mean for the opposition's battle against Mr Modi?
01:27We'll have to wait and see.