This is the second and final part of a two-part piece on the political realities surrounding the split in the Trinamool Congress party. Read part one here. The numbers game in Delhi is different from that in Bengal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not have a majority on his own in the Lok Sabha and his government depends on the support of smaller National Democratic Alliance parties. Modi has managed to obtain outside support in 28 seats from the Telugu Desam Party under Chandrababu Naidu and the Janata Dal (United) under Nitish Kumar. Sadly, despite splitting the Aam Aadmi Party recently, its three Lok Sabha members have remained with their parent party.Taking advantage of this situation, Suvendu Adhikari is preparing to gift-wrap some 20 Trinamool Lok Sabha MPs who are suddenly in love with the BJP and present them as his offering to Modi. He and a BJP minister who is tasked with breaking up the TMC at any cost (the pun is deliberate) have already achieved considerable success. They have located a motel – an obscure party in a remote state, that can act like a shell company does to accommodate the 20 MPs for them to be on some sort of an extra-marital dalliance with the BJP. These MPs are much more valuable than the TMC MLAs in Kolkata and Modi may be able to breathe more comfortably if they support the BJP. The terms of endearment are, of course, very private.But silly sentiments, like a conscience, keep raising uncomfortable questions. These MPs had won by promising voters that they would oppose the BJP. If they are now preparing to join it, would it not have been proper to seek the consent of their voters again? And could they not – instead of screaming “Abhishek, Abhishek,” Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and their fellow MP’s name – rationally explain the arrangement on which they are making this move.If they were truly so angry with the party’s corrupt image, why did all of them remain so silent in 2024, when I raised exactly this issue and resigned from the Rajya Sabha?I am told that the mere mention of my name enrages Abhishek Banerjee and his aunt, yet none of these people spoke out then. The new political reality is that once someone enters the BJP’s “washing machine,” they emerge spotlessly white. All allegations and charges of corruption simply disappear.Finally, let us look at the Rajya Sabha where the arithmetic is entirely different. To secure a majority there, Modi needs 123 seats and he has only 114 at present, even after inducing Raghav Chaddha to cross over with six other Rajya Sabha MPs of the Aam Aadmi Party.The BJP’s present tally needs just nine more members to reach 123 and secure a majority in the upper chamber. That is why there is so much attention on Trinamool’s 13 Rajya Sabha members. Three MPs have already resigned, citing Abhishek Banerjee as their reason. They know fully well that all their three seats will surely and effectively go to the BJP very soon. The BJP already has 207 seats in the West Bengal assembly of 294 (two are vacant), plus the new obliging rebel TMC group has 64 members. We do not know on what terms our three friends have resigned – and perhaps it does not matter. They have laid their three seats at Modi’s feet. If we count them, the BJP’s number in the Rajya Sabha goes up from 114 to 117. Only six more are needed.Ten obstinately loyal Upper House MPs now remain with Mamata Banerjee. Let us see what they now do and how they resist ‘deals’ or allurement. It is likely that some of them may move to the non-secular camp. Here again, we may recall that the BJP has just won the Bengal elections by denouncing the TMC as the most corrupt of parties – not because the critical margin of the state’s voters have suddenly fallen in love with Hindu extremism. They could take the corruption of the TMC no more — yet the victors appear now to be certifying that the TMC party’s defectors are completely “clean.”People are watching as the BJP relishes eating an infected TMC with a knife and fork and some tomato sauce on the side. They pray that they do not suffer indigestion or food poisoning. After all, not every body is Neelkantha Mahadev, the god who could swallow poison without any harm.Jawhar Sircar is a former Rajya Sabha MP of the Trinamool Congress. He was earlier secretary, Government of India, and CEO of Prasar Bharati.