Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in India's lower house of parliament Rahul Gandhi held three campaign rallies in West Bengal (an eastern Indian state heading to assembly polls) on Tuesday, directly accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress party of enabling the rise of its rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party. Speaking in Murshidabad, Gandhi argued that Trinamool's failures on income, governance, and violence had created the opening for the BJP to gain ground in the state. The remarks draw a sharp contrast with Trinamool chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's framing of the election as her party standing alone against a coalition of opposition-run states and the federal government.