With Banerjee’s blessings, Ghosh managed to get rid of the armed rebels from the backward areas of Purulia, Bankura and West Midnapore. The Jangal Mahal not only became free of just the Maoist menace but of any dissenting voices and Banerjee compensated the embattled Jangal Mahal with heavy doses of development, plugging all possibilities of any Maoist regrouping and then coined her favourite catch line of “Jangal Mahal Hanschhe, Pahar Hanschhe ( Jangal Mahal is smiling, the Hills are smiling—referring to the quelling of a renewed violent agitation for a separate state of Gorkhaland in the Darjeeling hills in north Bengal).