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You can't beat Mamata Banerjee in street politics - she pours her heart and soul into pulverising her rivals

Mamata Banerjee
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Aditi Phadnis
All this past week, if elections were being “fought”, they were being fought in West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee singlehandedly turned the last phase of the elections into a gladiatorial fight, forcing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to come out on the streets.

You cannot beat Mamata Banerjee in street politics. The Congress, the Left parties — they are all her victims. She pours her heart and soul into pulverising her rivals. Not for her sophistication and intellectualism. She believes in raw power.

At a cabinet meeting, just after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo (and make no mistake, supremo is what she is)
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