No one can blame Mamata Banerjee, who has faced everything from ridicule to physical blows from the Left Front when it was in power, for being aggressive in dealing with her political opponents in Bengal. However, it is now becoming increasingly clear that she has got her political act all wrong. Far from taking on her opponents, she is invigorating them by taking on her allies. After stalling every kind of economic rationalisation or reform proposed by the Congress – be it petrol price hike or FDI in retail or, now, the Pension Bill – she is now stretching her relationship to breaking point.