Narada sting operation: Will it dent Mamata Banerjee's popularity?

When the SC refused to stay the CBI probe, Mamata welcomed it and called it positive

A maverick leader, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, always brings in an element of surprise. 

Last Friday, when the Calcutta High Court ordered a preliminary inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the Narada sting operation — that allegedly featured many of the Trinamool ministers and MPs taking cash for favours in a video footage — she stopped short of saying that the judiciary and the Centre were in cahoots. 

"I have full respect for the judiciary but the fact remains that the order is the same as what a BJP leader had