 However, the situation was fragile.Siraj was forced to send much of his army westwards to protect his territory from Ahmad Shah Durrani, leaving him militarily weak; this, coupled with personal unpopularity at home and extensive political machinations at court, gave the East India Company an opportunity to try to replace him with a new Nawab.Meanwhile, Siraj's growing involvement with the French East India Company would provide the pretext to go to war.