Mamata tsunami sweeps aside all opposition in Bengal

Banerjee, who formed the Trinamool in 1998 by breaking away from the Congress to fulfill her life's mission of taking on the then entrenched Communist Party of India-Marxist led (CPI-M) Left Front, not only won handsomely with a 25,000 plus margin from Bhabanipur, but also made the Trinamool the only party in the state to emerge victorious in the assembly election by fighting alone since 1962.