The backlash against the “
hensheley aagun (fire in the kitchen)” spread to Calcutta on Monday with Mamata Banerjee hitting the streets to raise the pitch of her protest against the fuel price hike by getting women on her side on International Women’s Day.
The Trinamul Congress chief led a 2.5km march from College Square to the Dorina Crossing in central Calcutta along with 35,000 participants, “around 90 per cent” of whom were women, and then launched an attack on the Narendra Modi government, a day after the Prime Minister had come to the city to launch the BJP’s campaign for the 2021 Assembly polls.