New Delhi, June 13 -- As the stage is set for a crucial all-party meeting convened by Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi in Kolkata, the violent confrontation between Trinamool Congress and BJP shows that the people of the state and politics itself has been 'polarised politically'.

One part of the electorate supports the Mamata Banerjee-led outfit and another the Lotus party, but according to Congress leaders most of it is the "doing" of Mamata Banerjee herself as over the last two years she "weakened both the Congress and the Left by poaching leaders and workers of the opposition parties". The result is that now her party is 'facing difficulty' in terms of saving its own turf, especially after a large number of Trinamool workers and leaders i...