Aloo Andolann

Climate Policy | Sustainability | Public Affairs
🏠 IIT Delhi alum
🎸 1950s soul & Buddy Holly
🐕 Dog parent | Mimetic Theory learner

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@ThetaVegaCap Lick his ass man...

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@ShereenBhan The actual data: IOCL, BPCL, and HPCL just pocketed a staggering ₹77,280 Crore combined net profit over the last year, a massive 130% surge. How much more profit they want to make?

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@REDBOXINDIA @sougat18 Private petrol cars are not banned. Read the notification properly.

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@KantInEastt India doesn’t buy products. India buys what the product says about them.

Tata Nano wasn’t rejected because it was bad. It was rejected because nobody wants to be seen in the cheapest car.

Vibfast is making the same mistake. In a perception market, nobody will buy a taxi car.

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@Amockx2022 Paid PR like TMC used to do in West Bengal started. IPAC is still working underground for SP.

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@SanghamitraLIVE Till you keep getting your salary. Everyone will run away for better life than serving the leader like a servant.

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@JaipurDialogues He knows what works in south

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@TheWisemanPro @narendramodi Bhai. Dehat doesn’t vote on ethanol
Blending. Limited to urban middle class

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@Kamru_Choudhury Kamru that is correct. Rahul will become stronger but will always stay in opposition.

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@Yours__Pranav You are only going to strengthen CPM with Mamata at the helm. All the best. Thats what BJP wants.

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@Yours__Pranav You don’t know the history of congress and TMC electoral maths. Please check that first.

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@Kamru_Choudhury Tu apne aap ko itna important kyun de raha hai deadwood?

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@jawharsircar Hey deadwood. Get a life

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@naalaYUCK He has nowhere to go.

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@Oye_Jahazi 🤣🤣

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@rodpalmerhodl Casinos are never insolvent…

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Your assessment is wrong. Mamata was a different force when she was an untested sole fighter on the streets. Today, keeping Bhaipo by her side and running a corrupt system has completely trashed her image. She has gone down the same path as Lalu Yadav. The fighter is long gone.

[Sayantan Ghosh @sayantan_gh]

Today, the split within the TMC is unmistakably clear. The reasons behind this rebellion are, of course, rooted in growing resentment against Abhishek Banerjee. At the same time, many MLAs are apprehensive because they understand that the public anger against the TMC will eventually affect their own political futures. Others are simply seeking political protection in an increasingly uncertain environment.

However, I am not prepared to describe this as the Maharashtra model. What we are witnessing is a completely new model of dealing with an opposition party. The objective appears to be the creation of an opposition formation that does not directly challenge the ruling party—in this case, the BJP—while continuing to claim the political space of the original party.

As far as Mamata Banerjee’s future is concerned, my assessment is that she will not stop fighting. Even if she finds herself politically isolated, she will continue the struggle till the very end. Whether she can regain lost ground is a separate question, and at this stage any prediction of a comeback would be far-fetched. Yet, I am not willing to write a political obituary for Mamata Banerjee. Anyone familiar with her political journey knows that retreat is not part of her political vocabulary.

The larger question is what happens next. It increasingly appears that she may have to lead a separate political organisation. The developments unfolding suggest that, in the coming weeks and months, even the party symbol could move beyond her control. These are possibilities that are now firmly in the realm of political reality.

At the same time, it is important to remember that the TMC secured around 41 per cent of the vote in the recent election. This was an election that, by general consensus, took place without the levels of intimidation and violence that have often been alleged in the past. In such circumstances, a significant section of that vote was cast not for any individual MLA or faction, but for Mamata Banerjee herself.

That political strength cannot simply be taken away by a group of MLAs claiming to be the “real” TMC. The central strength of the TMC has always been Mamata Banerjee. Ironically, that has also been one of the party’s greatest weaknesses. The party’s identity has become so closely intertwined with her leadership that separating the two is far more difficult than many of her rivals may believe.

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@SaketGokhale Can you name a single initiative you’ve taken as an MP? Just one. Your loudest achievement seems to be getting loyalty after getting RS.