Saibal GuptaKolkata, Dec. 26 -- As 2025 draws to a close, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee finds herself navigating one of the most politically testing years of her long tenure.
The year was marked not by a single defining crisis, but by three overlapping fault lines; the Bhasha Andolan, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, and the unresolved teachers' movement stemming from the SSC recruitment scam.
Each issue emerged from a different institutional domain - culture, democracy, and governance- yet together they converged into a single political storyline: a chief minister positioning herself as the defender of Bengal against perceived systemic, external, and institutional threats, even as governance challenge...