Paribartan: Slogan that ousted Left in 2014 returns to haunt Mamata in 2019

In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, the TMC won 22 seats, while the BJP emerged victorious in 18 seats.

The Trinamool Congress’ (TMC’s) performance in the general election has put Mamata Banerjee's government on shaky ground ahead of the assembly election in 2021.

Since Writers’ Building (then the state secretariat) ushered in paribartan (change) in 2011, there has been no looking back for Banerjee — her popularity and support grew with each election. Be it the assembly, the civic or the panchayat polls, the TMC supremo had become nigh-invincible, what the Left used to be in Bengal, only in a much shorter period. But the performance of the party in the Lok Sabha polls is now threatening the continuity of