“I haven’t lost, and I won’t resign.” This sentence reveals an important fact: chutzpah comes naturally to Mamata Banerjee. She walks in courage, and the language of resistance is her grammar. Again and again she reaches for the broad arc of democratic possibility, brushing aside the grime of fear, intimidation and threat hurled at her.
In attention-deficient times, Banerjee, at her first press meet after the Bengal election results, made the world stand still. “I haven’t lost, and I won’t resign,” she announced.
The BJP and its echo chamber celebrated its 200-plus seat haul in West Bengal. TV studios were filled with the frenzy of graphics, projections and triumphalism. Talking heads frothed with analyses.
