Trinamool storms to power in Kolkata civic polls (Quick Take - As It Happens.).

From a prime business centre till the 1960′s West Bengal stagnated during the last 30 years of Communist rule. Rampant storm-troopers kept political opposition at bay. Voters were ‘kept’ in line. Trade Unions suppressed businesses till there was no industry left in West Bengal.

Mamata Banerji’s biggest symbol of success was reversal of the Tata Nanao project – where prime agricultural...