Under fire West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is facing fresh headwinds as the battleground state’s intellectuals, who were one of her core support bases to dislodge the Left Front government in 2011, are increasingly disillusioned with her autocratic ways and appeasement politics.
Banerjee, known for an avowed distaste for all things highbrow, courted intellectuals for a shot at power during Singur and Nandigram agitations over a decade ago.