Really? Wow, that changes things now, doesn't it? And here I was labouring under the impression that she spawned from the remnants of cadre-raj into a mutated form of the same cadre-raj - with the same thugs that ran the CPI(M) Machine for 34 years an d added Islamist thugs into the mix because # diversitygoals . Maybe I'm wrong- but unless National Parties enter the rough and tumble of street cadre politics, Bengal is stuck between the devil and the deep sea- and therefore prone to tolerating true yet simplistic thoughts of the nature that " Bengalis only voted her to power." Who do you vote into power, if at all, when victory in elections is directly related to cadre-strength and perceived "influence" in matters of local governance- basically a highly reactive mindset of politics as opposed to a mind set of proactive governance- a culture so deeply entrenched in Bengal owing to 34 years of booth-capturing, poll-day violence and what not. ...