So, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has done the impossible: Removed the CPI(M)-led Left Front from power in West Bengal. The ruling CPI(M) which was considered invincible has been routed. One woman has demolished the Red Fort.

The map of West Bengal has turned green with intermittent patches of red as the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress swept to power bulldozing the CPIM-led Left Front with a success rate of over 81 per cent.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi will take the final decision on the party's participation in the new government in West Bengal after discussing with Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

A few hours from now just could be the beginning of a green revolution in West Bengal. The Mamata brigade has already started preparing for what they believe is “inevitable” — a Trinamul Congress victory in the state Assembly elections.

On the eve of the announcement of results of the most crucial Assembly election of her political career, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was a picture of calm. Just opposite was the demeanour of CPI(M) state secretary and Left Front chairman Biman Bose. He was agitated and angry.

In December 1992, Mamata Banerjee, who was then a junior minister in Narsimha Rao government was humiliated, dragged by her hair and then thrown out of the Writers’ Buildings. She had gone to meet the then chief minister Jyoti Basu to seek justice for a deaf and mute girl Deepali Basak who was raped allegedly by a CPI(M) cadre in a Nadia village.

The Trinamool Congress was headed for victory in West Bengal on Friday, with former Marxist leader and Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee saying the "opposition was coming to power".

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, all set to take over the reins of power in West Bengal, on Friday requested party allies Congress and Left opposition Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), to join her government.

Now that all the exit polls have predicted the exit of Left Front, the million-dollar question being asked is: what role will Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee play in the changed circumstances?

Unfazed by the prediction of the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance’s sweeping victory, Left Front chairman Biman Bose on Tuesday dismissed the exit poll results as “bogus”. Referring to the exit poll results of the Assembly polls of 2001 and 2006, which eventually turned out to be “big jokes”, Mr Bose asserted that the Left Front forming the government for the eighth term is only a matter of time.