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Mamata is the architect of her own troubles. West Bengal won’t be fixed, even if she loses

By confronting everyone who comes in her way, even the Election Commission or crime-fighting agencies like the ED, Mamata Banerjee has shown that for her, everything is personal.

The Supreme Court bench hearing the West Bengal government’s petition against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voters’ list made a simple observation: “Whether the state is governed by A, B or C political party… Other than West Bengal, the SIR in every other state has happened smoothly. By and large, there is hardly any litigation.”

This observation of the Chief Justice, who heads the bench, will not impact the final outcome of the West Bengal petition, where judicial officers are overseeing the SIR appeals process at a time when the election process is already underway. But it squarely seeks to throw the spotlight on how the state itself may have brought the SIR troubles on itself.

The problem leads us back to the Chief Minister herself, who takes every decision that does not have her approval as a personal affront. She wades directly into any confrontation, as she did when she entered the IPAC (Indian Political Action Committee) offices just when the enforcement directorate (ED) was raiding it in connection with an alleged offence of money laundering. Once again, another Supreme Court bench, this time with Justices........

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