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As Shah Rukh’s Kolkata Knight Riders and Mithun’s Bengal Tigers cross swords over the next few months, a sinister plot is unfolding that promises to catapult the ruling CPM’s smouldering infighting into the headlines yet again — this time in the backdrop of the snowballing IPL versus ICL tug-of-war.
The protagonists to the plot are the same old name — Subhas Chakraborty versus Asok Bhattacharya — only the stage is different for the two warring ministers of the ruling Left Front government.
State sports minister Chakraborty is carrying the baton for the rebel ICL and its new-found icon Mithun, while facing his wrath is state urban development minister Asok Bhattacharya, a staunch ally of the Shah Rukh-Sourav Ganguly IPL team.
Subhas is known to be a strong critic of the Prasun Mukherjee-led CAB administration that is overseeing the IPL extravaganza, while it’s no secret that Asok is a close associate of Sourav Ganguly, the captain the IPL Kolkata team.
As Shah Rukh’s IPL bandwagon draws closer, and Mithun promising that his ICL carnival will be no less spectacular, the real focus will be on the latest turf war between the ruling CPM’s big guns, and the party’s tendency to lapse into infighting far too often for comfort.
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