Romita Datta

Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy is absent from the scene in Bengal. The murmur in the air is that he’s maintaining social distance with the party.

With a mightier BJP challenging to overthrow TMC, Mamata indeed needs a significant political rally to pump up her muscles and give the required push for taking on the opponents head-on.

The biggest advantage of Bengal BJP President's sprawling 12-BHK apartment is that it is closer to the airport. With the election not very far off, the BJP leaders will come trooping in regularly.

What keeps him ticking is his old courtroom habits of donning a lawyer’s gown in his imagination and engaging in banter by giving quick, smart repartees.

For the time being, politicians are choosing to wear their party colours and symbols on their masks as a way to help people recognise their leaders.

Be it BJP's Dilip Ghosh’s photo-op posturing in removing trees in a relatively unaffected area, or CPI (M)'s Kanti Ganguly standing like a rock beside the storm-ravaged people, netas are not losing the opportunity.

Vivek Kumar’s head rolled, as he held his head too high. This drew the attention of certain people who felt challenged.

Trinamool’s Mamata Banerjee and BJP’s Dilip Ghosh are reaching out to people. But who exactly are the people listening to?

As powers came and went, the myth became a conviction that the ruling party in Bengal controls polls.

Upcoming Lok Sabha Polls is an opportunity for Mamata to project herself as a credible face among the regional aspirants who are nursing ambitions beyond their regional contours.

While political analysts may write off these two inexperienced Tollywood imports, they may actually do wonders.

Mamata is finding it hard to rely on others, especially when the BJP is aiming slingshots at her and her much-touted claims of honesty.

From Farooq Abdullah to KCR — why every one is visiting Mamata Banerjee all of a sudden?

With the victory of Congress and its possible undercurrents rocking the nation, Mamata's dream of a Federal Front has been dumped.

The influential leader resigned from two important portfolios – housing and fire services department – apparently because of the party’s interference in his personal life.

Leaders of opposition parties have called on her to play a key role in an emerging third front.

TMC leader Mamata Banerjee has invited Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan and will request Sonia Gandhi’s presence at the first-ever political rally of the Opposition.

Was it also a puja gift from the CM, apart from Rs 10,000 that every puja committee received?

As SC/STs assert themselves, both TMC, BJP realise the communities’ importance.

In order to reach out to Hindi-speaking voters, the TMC is using everything from phucka to litti chokha.

The roads were less crowded, commuters were given sweets for stepping out. What is ‘normal’ about this?

No political party can clear unauthorised occupants because that population fills the political rallies and ballot boxes.

This week, she penned one on Centre’s intrusion in to private life — Unki (Peep) Online.

The West Bengal CM, in her own way, is grieving the passing away of a guardian figure who gave her a long rope and even put up with her tantrums.

I met the veteran MP for the first time in 2004, but he had been part of dinner table conversations all my life.

It is likely that she will wait till results are out to stake claim to the prime minister's chair.

The Calcutta Medical College strike could have ended in a whimper, if Mamata Banerjee had acted promptly.

The Congress president couldn't hide the elation over having actually left Modi dumbfounded.

The PM asked the Bengal chief minister to read the writing on the wall - the BJP is headed for big electoral gains in 2019.

The Panchayat verdict has been an eye-opener for Mamata Banerjee.