{"id":270138,"date":"2016-05-19T17:08:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=270138"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:38:41","slug":"didi-magic-in-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/didi-magic-in-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Didi Magic in West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MAMATA-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-270148 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MAMATA-11-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"MAMATA-11\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"270148\" \/><\/a>With increased vote share, TMC has stormed back to power for the second consecutive term, scripting a landslide victory for the\u00a0common man, harping on development plank and tearing into a \u201cweb of lies\u201d spread by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mamata Banerjee, affectionately called \u2018didi\u2019 by her supporters, has returned to power with the party getting a two-thirds majority in the 294-seat state assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sea of supporters and leaders reached TMC Chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee\u2019s residence in Kalighat to exchange pleasantries with jubilant women and party workers blowing conch shells and smearing each other with \u2018gulal\u2019. She said coming together of CPI(M) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/tag\/congress\/\">Congress<\/a>\u00a0was a \u201cblunder\u201d for both the parties and accused the\u00a0opposition of spinning a \u201cweb of lies\u201d to grab power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later at a press conference, Mamata Banerjee thanked the people of West Bengal for voting in favour of TMC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said, &#8220;We thank the common people of Bengal for standing in queues for long hours and voting for us. It&#8217;s an unprecedented victory of the common man. The way opposition has tried to conspire against us is not good for politics and public life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With increased vote share, TMC has stormed back to power for the second consecutive term, scripting a landslide victory for the\u00a0common man, harping on development plank and tearing into a \u201cweb of lies\u201d spread by the opposition. Mamata Banerjee, affectionately called \u2018didi\u2019 by her supporters, has returned to power with the party getting a two-thirds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":270148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,36,39],"tags":[3005,236,3006,1486,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}