BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. (Express photo by Partha Paul) Months after the Singur agitation began in 2006 and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) sensed that the ground beneath the Left Front government’s feet had started shifting, the party found itself in the middle of another agitation, this time in Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district. Here, as the TMC took on the might of the Left and its armed gangs, one party leader stood by Mamata Banerjee and helped marshal the party’s forces and the villagers. On Monday, Suvendu Adhikari, seen as a potential heir to the TMC before their bitter fallout over five years ago, stood vindicated as he defeated the TMC chairperson for the second straight election. This time, from the south Kolkata constituency of Bhabanipur, on Mamata’s home turf, five years since besting her in Nandigram itself. Over 18 years since the anti-land acquisition agitation, Suvendu was again at the thick of things as another ruling party discovered that the ground underneath its feet had vanished.…