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The clairvoyant who got things right about Bengal politics passed away on Thursday, handing a potent weapon to the person he had predicted about two decades ago. It was February 1998 and it was a do-or-die battle between BJP and CPM. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the star campaigner for BJP nominee Tapan Sikdar from Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency. But 14 years after that afternoon Vajpayee’s prediction came true. “If there is anyone who can bring an end to communist rule in Bengal, it is Mamata Banerjee,” Vajpayee had said this with the characteristic flick of his fingers.
On the death of this noble politician the CM of West Bengal said, ‘Very very saddened that the grate statesman and former PM Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee is no more with us. His passing away is a very big loss to our nation. I will always cherish the many fond memories.” The family level bonding had started in July 2000 when Vajpayee who was the PM then, visited Banerjee’s 30B Harish Chatterjee Road home and met her mother Gayatri Devi. Atalji had touched Gayatridevi’s feet and said “A politicians like hers were rare and 10 such politicians like her were enough to change India’s political landscape.”
Emerging from Vajpaee’s home on Thursday evening, Mamata said, “After the 2016 Assembly elections, I had gone to meet him in Delhi; Atalji was in a state of paralysis. He wanted to tell me something but could not and only teardrops rolled out... I felt very sad seeing that he was not able to speak that he was not able express himself in words... I have come to pay my last respects to him.”
