MAMATA and her mood swings make people wary of her. Without her tantrums, Mamata Bannerjee will not, of course, be the same. And so, with her unpredictability, she seems determined to continue treading on troubled waters.
Her “white paper” to debunk her predecessor Lalu Prasad Yadav’s claims of turning around the Indian Railway’s fortunes is really an original idea. It is the done thing for new governments to promptly rundown the previous regimes for mismanagement, but individual ministers have so far refrained from stooping so low. Maybe new-found liking for Nitish Kumar, whose happiest moment is when Lalu’s squirming, has something to do with it. Actually, there are no B-school kids from Harvard and MIT are not dropping by to see her, as they did with Lalu. Or, is she trying to divert attention from the total non-performance of the Railway Ministry?
Her main interest is to move to Kolkata, which she is impatient about. She took charge as minister not at the Rail Bhavan in New Delhi but in Kolkata. Since then, apart from presenting the Railway Budget, she has devoted hardly any time in her office. Not only has she not taken any initiatives of her own, she has put a freeze many of the schemes that Lalu had launched.
Mamata may not even want to introduce the Railway Budget this year for fear of presenting a dud. By then, the Assembly elections in her state will be exactly a year away and she may decide to move to Kolkata. This will launch one final offensive that could bring to an end the 33 years misrule of the ‘Commies’. Yes, and West Bengal’s gain will not to be Rail Bhavan’s loss.
Her “white paper” to debunk her predecessor Lalu Prasad Yadav’s claims of turning around the Indian Railway’s fortunes is really an original idea. It is the done thing for new governments to promptly rundown the previous regimes for mismanagement, but individual ministers have so far refrained from stooping so low. Maybe new-found liking for Nitish Kumar, whose happiest moment is when Lalu’s squirming, has something to do with it. Actually, there are no B-school kids from Harvard and MIT are not dropping by to see her, as they did with Lalu. Or, is she trying to divert attention from the total non-performance of the Railway Ministry?
Her main interest is to move to Kolkata, which she is impatient about. She took charge as minister not at the Rail Bhavan in New Delhi but in Kolkata. Since then, apart from presenting the Railway Budget, she has devoted hardly any time in her office. Not only has she not taken any initiatives of her own, she has put a freeze many of the schemes that Lalu had launched.
Mamata may not even want to introduce the Railway Budget this year for fear of presenting a dud. By then, the Assembly elections in her state will be exactly a year away and she may decide to move to Kolkata. This will launch one final offensive that could bring to an end the 33 years misrule of the ‘Commies’. Yes, and West Bengal’s gain will not to be Rail Bhavan’s loss.
Source: The Tribune, Chandigarh, India.
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