Mahua Moitra's long journey from JPMorgan to Trinamool Congress

Moitra, who graduated in economics and maths from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, US, turned heads when she quit her job as vice president at JPMorgan and took a plunge into active politics

Every time a party worker on the loudspeaker ahead of her on the roadshow pronounced “Mitro” instead of “Moitro”, Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra corrected him. Yet, he would end up pronouncing her name incorrectly, much to her annoyance. 

Moitra was holding the roadshow in Krishnanagar, 120 km from Kolkata, a primarily rural constituency in Nadia district with the municipality zone as its only urban centre.

She is no stranger to these parts. Karimpur, from where she is a sitting MLA since 2016, is an adjoining Assembly segme­nt to the Krishna­nagar Parliamen­tary constituency. “Just after I retu­rned from the US in July