Netaji and the Bengali tigress

In the best traditions of a power-overdosed and highly-strung city, Lutyens’ Delhi seemed to acquire a new restlessness and energy on the afternoon of Wednesday, 13 June, as Mamata Banerjee and Mulayam Singh Yadav threw the Congress into a tizzy. They rejected Sonia Gandhi’s nominees for the presidency — Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari — with Mamata, rather than anybody in the Congress, making the official announcement of those names.

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