Car bonnets to courtrooms, all Mamata Banerjee needs is a stage and a cause. As West Bengal votes today in one of its most decisive elections, The Indian Express on the 71-year-old who likes a good fight.
Amid the push forward by an assertive BJP and a pushback by a determined Mamata Banerjee, the outcome on May 4 will have implications far beyond Bengal.
She, the uprooter of the Left, is the provider of cash transfers and welfare schemes. This second contest may be playing out not so much as Didi vs SIR/EC/BJP. It is, more, Didi vs Didi.
Banerjee alleged that BJP has been hiring people for their meetings. “Yesterday some buses came to my constituency (Bhabanipur) also. I gave them sweets…” she said, urging people to keep a watch on all “on religious places and hotels” for outsiders.