West Bengal and Odisha are on the verge of going to war over potatoes - NewsX

Kolkata: The humble potato comes a poor second to pricey onion in State matters. But that was before Mamata Banerjee wielded the knife. Over the past couple of days, the West Bengal Police, directed by the Chief Minister, has seized thousands of trucks carrying potatoes to neighbouring states such as Orissa, Jharkhand and Bihar. Mamata's provocation was the rise in the price of the vegetable back home. However, while potato prices have stabilised to some extent in Kolkata, they have shot up to more than Rs 35 a kilogramme in many of the neighbouring states because of her move.
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