West Bengal’s principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will need to significantly shore up its 2021 performance in phase two of Assembly election scheduled on Wednesday, April 29, where most of the 142 seats spread across seven districts have historically voted overwhelmingly for the ruling Trinamool Congress.   The BJP had a favourable field among the 152 constituencies which went to poll in the first phase last Thursday, April 23, where it had won 59 of the total 77 seats in a 2021 surge.  Among the districts is Nadia, which has altogether 17 Assembly constituencies. Seven of these come under Krishnanagar Parliamentary seat, which is held by Trinamool’s Mahua Moitra.  Among the seven Assembly segments, the BJP could win only one, Krishnanagar Uttar. BJP candidate Jagannath Sarkar retained the other Lok Sabha seat of Ranaghat in 2024.  His party had also fared well in the 2021 Assembly poll, winning four of the seven segments here.  Among the three other three Assembly seats, Karimpur which falls under Murshidabad Lok Sabha went to the Trinamool, while Kalyani …