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Low blow: ‘Didi-oh-Didi’, drawled and punctuated in the tone used by Modi, will remain embedded in Bengal’s memory for a long time. PTI
Julio Ribeiro
The defining feature of the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal is the image of a lone intrepid woman with a broken leg in a wheelchair. She is dressed simply in her trademark white sari. She has taken on the country’s most popular politician and his retinue consisting of the Union Home Minister, the BJP president, UP Chief Minister and a stream of bigwigs single-handedly, in a David v/s Goliath battle.
How did she break her leg? She was boarding her car after an election rally, when the crowd that had come dangerously close to her put pressure on the car’s door when only one leg was safely inside. In numerous rallies supervised by me in my halcyon days, I have witnessed this mad rush of admirers, or may be just onlookers, towards the presiding star.