Is Mamata the problem or the solution?

Many political opponents have defected to the TMC. Banerjee also seems to have forged an awkward peace in the hills

It is discomfiting. But left intellectuals and rightwing Hindu nationalists have a common political problem. She is called Mamata Banerjee.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI (M)] became the only political party across the opposition spectrum to side with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in supporting the raid by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials on West Bengal top cop, Rajeev Kumar last week. At least two senior leaders from the Forward Bloc, an alliance partner of the Left Front in Bengal, have joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the last eight months. One of them, Paresh Adhikari, was