CM Gupta had campaigned for the BJP in West Bengal. Jhalmuri was raised to a subject of political contestation after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopped for the spicy puffed rice snack, and Mamata Banerjee mocked him for doing ‘drama’
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.
"Everyone saw what happened. How our chief minister was insulted. This will go against the BJP," said Sovandeb Chatterjee, a senior TMC leader who was present at the public meeting.