Lok Sabha elections 2019: Dole-outs that failed the TMC in West Bengal

Since much of the voting in this elections was on religious lines, Mamata's rural focus became irrelevant

Ever since coming to power, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been holding frequent administrative review meetings, which most government officials and district-level political leaders dread.

In roll call-like sessions, she often lashed out at top government officials and party workers over the progress of development works in full glare of the media.

The review meetings hold key to Mamata’s style of administration, showing her strong connect with the rural masses. 

Till November 2018, she had done 430 such meetings. In nearly eight years of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime in West Bengal, rural areas have been the focus of successive budgets