Mamata may do the tango with Modi

It’s a measure of Ms Mamata Banerjee’s political dexterity that no one knows which camp she will be aligned with for the Lok Sabha election. Perhaps she herself doesn’t know yet, for her choices are rooted in pragmatism and not principle, and the winning pattern has yet to emerge. But Mr Prakash Karat of the CPI(M) and Mr Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Minister of State for Railways who now heads the Congress’s West Bengal unit — both her deadly foes — accuse her of being in cahoots with Mr Narendra Modi.

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