Used to pacing up and down the dais armed with a microphone, she sat in a wheelchair and with a plastered foot an extraordinary sight in a state grown familiar to a boundless mix of movement and sound that explodes when Mamata Banerjee takes centre stage.
Shorn of mobility, the voice of the 66-year-old lacked the usual thunder and the speech was over in barely 10 minutes.
But the message from Mamata at the Sunday afternoon event her first public meeting since her injury in Nandigram on Wednesday was loud and clear: “Don’t forget an injured tigress is more dangerous than a dead one.”
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