His Brigade tune: win-win with Didi once, Sonar Bangla a constant.

The Prime Minister, who predicted on Sunday that the game was over (“khela shesh”) for the Trinamool Congress, had in 2014 invited voters to choose a win-win of Narendra Modi in Delhi and Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata.

“Aapke dono haath mein laddu,” he told an election rally at the same Brigade Parade Ground in 2014.

By the time the West Bengal Assembly elections came round two years later, Modi was targeting Mamata over the Saradha scam and attacking the “syndicate culture” in the state.