The ring of new political ties

It was one telephone call ahead of International Women’s Day. But the two women at each end of the line are so unique that the call dominated political chatter on Friday. A day after she snapped political ties with the Left parties and was praised for it, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa called her Bengal counterpart, Mamata Banerjee, who had said in a television interview on Thursday that she would be amenable to supporting a non-Congress, non-Bharatiya Janata Party leader like Jayalalithaa as Prime Minister.

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