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WEST BENGAL: The game is going into the bloody slog overs in Bengal, but where is Rahul Gandhi? Call it a secondary mystery wrapped inside a nail-biting political thriller. It’s a missing piece of jigsaw no one seems to have much noticed or considered despite it having the potential to decide a cliffhanger.
Now, it’s quite natural that when it comes to Bengal the mother, or perhaps the big sister of all battles attention has tended to be concentrated upon the primary antagonists. Like a convex lens focusing sunlight, the pitched battle of attrition between the Trinamool and the BJP has been setting off a lot of fires in the media.
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The hotel industry and the fab cafes haven’t seen such brisk business in the last 10 years of Didi’s rule. None of them will say koro na (don’t do it) to this moveable feast, corona or no corona.
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West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee addresses an election campaign rally for Assembly polls, at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas. (Photo | PTI)
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WEST BENGAL: This election is bipolar. I don’t see anything else at the micro or macro level.” That’s one of Mamata Banerjee’s key strategists airing his views, post two volatile phases of polling, with six more to go, a process that cumulatively promises to run a bleeding-edge scythe through West Bengal’s political history.
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BOLPUR/SUIRI/RAMPURHAT,BIRBHUM: Mamata Banerjee lit up Nandigram with a slogan that perhaps encapsulates where West Bengal is right now, in terms of the gap between its reality and its desire. “Cool cool Trinamool,
thanda thanda cool, vote paabe jora phool,” she thundered, with an elan that TV advertising professionals would envy.
Jora phool is the grass flower associated with the West Bengal Chief Minister’s party, the Trinamool. Will it get the votes? Therein hangs a tale.
Now, West Bengal may well be renamed Nandigram. You must of course overlook a few distractions like Amit Shah claiming a clean sweep, in arid Purulia. Or Mamata Banerjee actually demanding that the PM’s visa and passport be cancelled for having visited Orakandi in Bangladesh. Those distractions are quite a handful for an Assembly election, you think? Yes. But then, this is West Bengal.