It has been a remarkable year for West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Ever since she breached the Left citadel this time last year, she has been leaving an imprint both on state and national politics. At the state level, she has taken decisions that have left her supporters in the middle classes disillusioned, but her hold over the poor and marginalised is believed to be intact as she heads into a critical panchayat election later this year. At the Centre, her stances have completely frustrated the Manmohan Singh regime, of which she is a part. Always threatening an exit, she set the cat among the pigeons again by talking of early polls.
After one year in office, where is the proverbial "paribartan" (change) Bengal was promised?