Ramaswami: AS the campaign for the elections to the Tripura state assembly was ending, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi thundered that CPI(M) will be ousted from 'Hindustan'. Indeed history is repeating itself. During the 1986 elections to the West Bengal state assembly, the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi notoriously declared that “Calcutta is a dying city”. Not only did the Left Front sweep those elections, but it continued to win the next four elections with a two-thirds majority.