Potato Wars

West Bengal-Odisha headed for potato wars

West Bengal and Odisha are on the verge of going to war over potatoes. A foretaste came over the weekend when activists in Odisha blocked trucks from Andhra Pradesh headed for West Bengal with fish and eggs. They were protesting against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's ban on exporting, as it were, potatoes from Bengal to Odisha where p...