UNI ELECTION SPECIALJayanta Roy ChowdhuryKolkata, April 14 -- As Bengal celebrates 'Poila Baisakh', the first day of the Bengali calendar, a vibrant expression of the culture of this riverine land, electoral battle lines are hardening over that very sense of 'Bangaliana' (Bengali-ness) that its people, regardless of their mother tongue, hold dear.
Huge hoardings with Trinamool party leader and state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee smiling with folded hands with the tagline 'Bangla nijer meyekei chay' (Bengal wants its own daughter) stare down at travellers driving through state highways which criss-cross the ever-green rural landscape leading to Kolkata, while TMC's pop up ads on social media speak of "Abar jitbe Bangla" (Bengal will win on...