View: Mamata’s victory will give new heart to an otherwise demoralised opposition
Shiva Sen has already hailed her as a ‘Bengali tigress.’ The underlying message being: If she can come out tops against such odds, so can we.
Synopsis
The suspense of the last few weeks over whether or not Mamata Banerjee ‘will make it’ helped her in more ways than one. It made her into a larger-than-life figure, fighting with her back to the wall, pitted against the might and money of a formidable BJP.
The suspense of the last few weeks over whether or not Mamata Banerjee ‘will make it’ helped her in more ways than one. It made her into a larger-than-life figure, fighting with her back to the wall, pitted against the might and money of a formidable BJP. Moving about in a wheelchair with her left foot in a cast from an injury in the middle of the campaign helped optics.
By taking on Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram – a huge risk given that he had
