Mamata wins, Bengal loses

On a day the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee won the assembly bypoll from Bhowanipore, a safe seat near her home, by 54,213 votes, there was another political victory to celebrate. The Calcutta High Court upheld the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, introduced by the Mamata Banerjee government in June to take back the 997 acres leased to the Tatas at Singur for 99 years, as constitutional and valid.

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