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In what is looking like a repeat of the Samajwadi Party’s fissures when Akhilesh Yadav moved to take control of the party against the wishes of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, loyalists of Abhishek Banerjee are growing impatient with the old guard led by Mamata Banerjee. But Mamata is no pushover unlike Mulayam in his last days ....
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UPDATED: July 16, 2021 09:25 IST West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at a press conference at Nabanna on June 28; (ANI Photo) There’s a sense of urgent purpose in the way Mamata Banerjee is approaching her new term in office. Two months into her third term on the trot, the West Bengal chief minister has already rolled out several initiatives the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had promised in its poll manifesto. These include new welfare projects, including ‘duare ration’, to deliver rations to people’s doorsteps; ‘lokkhir bhandar’, which gives housewives Rs 6,000 in annual support payments (Rs 12,000 for women from SC/ ST communities); a Rs 10 lakh credit line for students seeking higher education; and ‘duare tran’, to deliver relief payments to victims of cyclone Yaas. These follow the template of the ‘duare sarkar’ programme her government ran before the assembly election, to improve delivery of government services by cutting out middlemen and thereby reduci ....