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After 34 years of communist rule, federal Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, simply known as "Didi" or "elder sister," looks set to overthrow a leftist government blamed for leaving West Bengal and its capital Kolkata in a time-warp of Soviet era state control. Banerjee's Trinamool Party is allied to India's ruling Congress party and her victory would give the national coalition a moral boost at a time when it has been battered by high food inflation and graft scandals. But analysts said that hopes that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may be able to revive stalled economic reforms are low because the coalition remains pre-occupied with fighting off an opposition onslaught on the graft charges. If anything, a landslide win for Banerjee may only leave the Congress more vulnerable to pressure from its populist partner. Results for the month-long staggered election will be known on May 13. The 56-year-old's victory would seal her position as one of India's most powerful regional politicians with the ability to influence Singh's government, which is dependent on her party's 19 seats in the 545-member national parliament Congress has 207 seats and depends on regional allies like Trinamool to reach the 272 halfway mark in parliament. Banerjee with her trademark white sari and known for her spartan life-style, has won support with firebrand speeches and aggressive leadership against the communists that saw her once severely beaten up by communist mob. "I promise to run North Bengal into Switzerland" she told supporters at the weekend on the campaign trail. Monday's election is centered on the remote northern part of the state. Her statement, widely quoted in local media, referred to bringing the railway network up to Swiss standards. It was the kind of rhetoric that her critics say highlights her lack of real policy beyond criticizing the communists. As dawn broke on Monday, scores of voters formed queues outside one unopened booth, excitedly showing their identity cards to security personnel in Siliguri, some 600 km (370-mile) north of state capital Kolkata. "There are no predictable results in India's politics, but if there were, then this would be the most predictable of them all," The Indian Express said in an editorial on Monday. Once one of the richest cities in Asia and the capital of the British empire in India, Kolkata has become a byword for poverty that has stumbled behind the new modern India of IT cities like Bangalore and Hyderabad. DISAFFECTED URBAN VOTERS 1 2 Next World Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. 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