COLOUR BAR

After the BJP breached Didi’s bastion in West Bengal, scoring stunning successes in the Lok Sabha poll and poaching MLAs, the color saffron is anathema to the Trinamool Congress. So much so that saffron laddoos or food items of similar hue are strictly forbidden in TMC meetings. A party leader, in charge of food packets, recently ordered pale yellow laddoos, which found no takers. “They’ve become anaemic,” said the leader mournfully. Like the party?