Click to play videoKolkata: The Election Commission is determined to prove its might in Bengal, and that gives Mamata Banerjee a firmer wicket than ever before. But would the Trinamool manage to regain some lost grounds?
People in Bengal don't seem to get tired of the CPI-M. Yet people who walk several miles to hear Mamata Banerjee speech don't appear any less hopeful of change than the Opposition leader herself like these Santhals who are headed for a rally which is going to be addressed by Banerjee and former BJP law minister Arun Jaitley.
"Take away the minister's chair. He is not a democratically elected minister. He won with rigged votes. Take away his chair and tell him that no minister is permanent, only the public is," says Banerjee.
Though her popularity has taken a slight beating, the firebrand leader still manages to draw a huge crowd wherever she goes.
And in every rally, she attacks the CPIM for rigging elections and questions the Bengal government's thrust on industrialisation. But Mamata speech appears to have lost the sting of yesteryears.
Mamata Banerjee's strongest ally this year is the Election Commission. If you go by exit polls, the CPI-M has done quite well in the first two phases of polling.
The three phases ahead are crucial for Mamata and top most on her agenda is regaining the ground she has lost in this city.
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