She has been the uncrowned Queen of the Streets ever since she started her political career against Jyoti Basu’s mighty Left Front government in West Bengal of the turbulent ’70s, when she made headlines dancing on Jayaprakash Narayan’s car as a 20-something Congress leader.

Politics of the streets has stood the West Bengal CM in great stead. Whether it was taking physically challenged Dipali Basak to Writer’s Building in 1992 only to be detained by the police, or leading the agitation against CPI(M)’s ‘scientific rigging’ in 1993 in which 13 were killed in police firing, or the Singur and Nandigram protests, or the pre-2021 election act of campaigning in a wheelchair with a bandaged foot, she has derived the kind of mileage from........

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