A Fallen Flyover in Kolkata May Well Be Trinamool’s Achilles Heel

The Kolkata flyover tragedy demonstrated that not listening to people isn’t the best way to get a popular mandate.

Heavy vehicles crushed as an under-construction flyover collapsed on Vivekananda Road in Kolkata on Thursday. (Photo: PTI)

The Rs 164-crore Vivekananda Road flyover was supposed to ease the heavy traffic flow between Central Kolkata’s congested Girish Park area and the old business centres of Burrabazar and Posta, right next to the Hooghly River. But instead, what it did was perpetrate perhaps one of the worst urban tragedies Kolkata has ever witnessed. Coming on the heels of the state assembly elections, the incident is now being spoken of as a possible electoral game-changer, at least in the surrounding areas.

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