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Streetwise Kolkata: Red Road — A tarred road from which once Spitfires took off

Streetwise Kolkata: Red Road A tarred road from which once Spitfires took off © Provided by The Indian Express The two-kilometer-long Red Road that slices the large expanse of the Maidan in Kolkata and one part of the heart of the city, is not really red. In fact, it is more asphalt black than grey. The only patches of the colour one would find along that stretch of the city are the flaming blooms of gulmohar and palash when both start flowering within days of each other, in late spring. Yet, the road is one of Kolkata’s more iconic thoroughfares, very much like Park Street, immediately associated with the city’s history. Like many other Kolkata roads and neighbourhoods, there are varying stories about how the road really got its name. Nearly four decades ago, the stretch was renamed Indira Gandhi Sarani, after the country’s former prime minister, but this nomenclature is rarely used, in official communication or when instructing taxi drivers in the city.

BJP can have Mamata Banerjee assassinated if it fails to win polls: TMC minister

TMC leader and state minister Subrata Mukherjee. (Express Photo Shashi Ghosh) Alleging that the BJP may “hatch a conspiracy to assassinate West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee”, if it fails to win elections, senior TMC leader Subrata Mukherjee said the saffron camp is hiring people to commit crimes, and putting the blame on others. Mukherjee, who is also the state panchayat minister, made the startling claim on Saturday, and added that if the BJP tries to harm Banerjee who is the “mother of crores of citizens, we will shed our blood to stop that from happening”. “They (BJP) are plotting to have Mamata Banerjee removed. They can even hire people to assassinate her secretly, if they fail to defeat her electorally. People are being brought from outside to create unrest in Bengal. We will foil their plans,” he said during a road inauguration programme in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas.

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