Can Mimi Chakraborty do a Mamata of 1984 in Jadavpur?

Kolkata, May 18: The prestigious Jadavpur parliamentary constituency in West Bengal has never blessed a political party for a third consecutive term. Can the Trinamool Congress buck the trend?

As this question was posed to an elderly TMC worker, his mind flashed back to 1984 - when a young woman leader defeated an erudite lawyer and Communist leader.

The script is somewhat similar in 2019, with addition of a new actor.

The TMC is banking on 30-year-old Bengali film-star Mimi Chakraborty for a third consecutive win in Jadavpur, where party chief Mamata Banerjee, then a feisty young Congress leader, had trounced CPI(M) veteran and noted lawyer Somnath Chatterjee in 1984.