Mamata Banerjee Victory

• Mamata Banerjee's victory leaves JNU divided

  The victory of Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress in West Bengal assembly polls has divided the Left dominated student bodies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the Capital. While the Students Federation of India (SFI) believes that the Left parties will bounce back to power soon, the All India Students Association (AISA) and Democratic St...

• The 'Pariborton' of Mamata Banerjee and Bengal

  There are few who will dispute that Mamata Banerjee's historic victory in West Bengal today has been scripted, chartered and delivered entirely by the woman who West Bengal refers to as "Didi" and whose call for "pariborton" or change has been fuelled by her emphasis on "ma, mati, manush" (Mother, Land, People).  In 1997, she was expell...

• West Bengal election results: Left reacts to its blackout in Bengal

  The Left is part in denial, part introspective. So used to ruling Bengal were the Communists, that leaders admit they had not factored in the rout. As it became clear that Mamata Banerjee would be the new Chief Minister in Kolkata, CPM leader Nilotpal Basu tried to analyse what went wrong for the Left. Why it lost its biggest stronghold. Primarily,...

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  Mamata's mega show of might

  A martyr's day meeting was turned into a victory rally by the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata on Tuesday.