From Tumpa song to flash mobs, Left goes for a revamp in West Bengal

"Tumpa Sona", which takes potshots at Trinamool Congress and BJP, has gone viral since its launch last week, drawing flak and praise in equal measure

Comebacks in politics are not uncommon.

Winston Churchill’s Conservative Party lost the UK election in 1945 in a landslide, but came back with a narrow victory in 1951. Closer home, Indira Gandhi was virtually written off, after the Janata alliance crushed the Congress in 1977 due to excesses during the Emergency, but swept back to power in less than three years. In recent times, the resurrection of Mamata Banerjee’s political career in 2011 is the most successful comeback that Bengal has seen.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front, too, is working on a comeback script in the state.