Tag: Mamata Banerjee

The three women hoping to upset India’s Modi at the polls

by Abhaya SRIVASTAVA Agence France-Presse NEW DELHI, India (AFP) – India’s alpha-male Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces three formidable women looking to spoil his chances of winning a new term in elections beginning next week. AFP profiles them here: ‘Big sis’ Feisty and fiery Mamata Banerjee is the first female chief minister of the eastern state of West Bengal — home to more people than Germany — where Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) needs to […]