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On August 16, 1990, Mamata Banerjee was leading a protest march at the busy Hazra crossing in South Kolkata. She was seeking to rehabilitate herself after a humiliating defeat at the hands of a relatively unknown CPIM candidate just a year earlier. That opportunity arrived that very day, but almost at the expense of Mamata s life. A CPIM goon hit her with a
lathi on her head. The doctor who attended to her said she had received two separate blows to her head, and if she hadn t fended off the third with her left wrist, it could well have caused severe irreparable damage.