A day after polling in 152 seats in the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections registered the highest-ever turnout, at about 92.9%, all eyes are now on the 142 seats scheduled for voting in the second and final phase on April 29. These 142 seats are considered the incumbent Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC)’s core stronghold spread over south Bengal and Kolkata district. The record voter turnout in the first phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed, “put a seal on… the wave of change that had been visible in Bengal for a long time”. With both Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah set to campaign in the second-phase seats too, the BJP is looking to breach the TMC’s South Bengal fort as it looks to outdo its seat tally of 77 from the 2021 polls, when it first became the principal Opposition in the state on the back of a strong performance in north Bengal.…