Despite her ministers’ arrest in the seven-year-old Narada corruption sting case, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s popularity ratings may have touched an all-time high, though the fate of her government may be in the balance with Central agencies hinting at break down of law and order in the state, according to political analysts.
The high voltage drama which played out on Monday starting from the early morning arrests of TMC leaders by the CBI to a 6-hour long protest by Banerjee at the CBI office, and demonstrations by her party’s supporters before the Raj Bhavan and the Presidency Correctional Home where they had been taken, has focused attention on the possible political fall-out and end-game for the crisis.
Prof Ranabir Samaddar, well-known political scientist and former head of Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, said, “Recent events where the governor has criticised his own government (over post-poll violence) and the arrests themselves are leading us into an…