‘Bengal wants its own daughter’

"Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye" (Bengal wants its own daughter) -- is the new slogan unveiled yesterday by West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress portraying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the daughter of Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections due in March-April. The slogan has added to the raging "insider vs outsider" debate provoked by Trinamool Congress.  "We don't want outsiders to call the shots in Bengal, " said TMC Secretary General Partha Chatterjee. TMC is engaged in a bitter political fight with the BJP, pitching the opposition party's leaders as "outsiders" who are on "election tourism" to the state.