At the site of Mamata’s dharna, voice from margins: ‘Just like Singur’ indianexpress.com

Almost every night, Chandra shuts his tea shop opposite the Metro gate at Esplanade around 9 and catches a train back home to New Barrackpur. But not on Sunday night — when the faceoff between the CBI and police, between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Centre, kept him awake, like many others on the margins and in the middle of the drama that unfolded in the heart of Kolkata.
A drama that entered the second act Monday night, as Banerjee clocked 24 hours in her dharna against the CBI’s move to question Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in various chit fund scam cases.