 "Members of the Trinamool Congress protest against the Centre’s demonetisation drive in front of the Reserve Bank of India in Kolkata")
In April 2013, when the Saradha scam unfolded, many said it was the end of the road for the feisty chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee. However, the 2016 elections to the state Assembly proved the naysayers wrong and the Trinamool Congress rode back to power with impressive numbers: the party won 211 out of the 294 seats, bettering its tally of 184 in 2011.
It seemed the ghost of Saradha had been buried for good. The entire TMC leadership came out unscathed from the Saradha scam. In September 2016, even Madan Mitra, former transport minister of West Bengal,
