UNI SPECIALJayanta Roy ChowdhuryKolkata, April 26 -- On a sweltering Sunday afternoon, Mamata Banerjee stepped out in her trade mark rubber slippers and white sari with a simple, almost austere border at Chakraberia, in the heart of her Bhabanipur constituency, from where she had stormed out last night, protesting the loud use of mikes by rival BJP workers to drown out her campaign meet.

As the crowd cheered, and an old Sikh gentleman stepped out to grasp her hands, Banerjee once again came across as the 'street fighter politician' who had managed to keep at bay the BJP juggernaut from defeating her in West Bengal.

She was heard telling policemen, "Ei aste dao, ora sob amar chena" (Let them come near, they are all known to me), as the cro...