Between hell and a hard place

At the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'s 24th West Bengal state convention on Monday, former state chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee let it all out on the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He likened the government run by TMC to "a hellfire" and "an inferno". The BJP was no choice for the people of the state either because, he said, it was asking the people to replace "baam (Left) with Ram". As a parting shot, he urged the people of the state and its politicians to unite and work towards "delivering" themselves from these "evils".