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“No one can force me to stay in Delhi. I have been elected to serve the people of Bengal first. Delhi is not my home town. Besides, even Parliament is not in business. So, I have taken the right decision to stay in Kolkata,” she said last evening.
Following the stampede and chaos at New Delhi railway station on Sunday morning, some Congress leaders had raised the issue of her absence from Delhi.
Banerjee described the issue as a “CPM ploy to put pressure on her so that she spends more time in Delhi before the crucial municipal polls and it takes advantage of the same.”
Similar allegations were raised against Banerjee after the recent train disruptions in Mumbai. She was not in Parliament when the issue was raised.
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What do we elect politicians for? To make money for themselves and their money - in tens of thousands of crores. Come and see Tamil Nadu's Cheif Politician's family
If she thinks she has been selected only for Bengal, then should not have demanded for the Rly Ministry which for the Indian Union as a whole. sitting in Kol she thinks she can manage the affairs, it is not her capabilaity but that of the Secy and Babus. It is high time that she relinquished the Min and stayh back and proper her fortunes in KOl
It is amusing to read IE's concern on Mamata didi's nakraas. As if it is ok for dhigvijay to make stupid remarks against PC's war against naxal. It is almost like PC is waging his personal war against naxal with everybody around him sniping him for one thing or another. Manmohan remains smug during parliament debate. And NDTV is reporting that everybody wants this government back! India has faced so many calamities - ek aur hi sahi.
What a shame! She does not even know that she is a Cabinet Minister for the entire country and not only West Bengal!! It is high time that she should be removed as a Minister. Let her serve only West Bengal.
This would have been so funny had it not been so tragic. Ms. Banerjee has shown utter disregard to her ministry since she became the Railway Minister. Its true that Delhi is not her home town, but it is her workplace. A ministry as big and complex as Railways can't be on autopilot forever. If Babus is all we need to run this country, what do we elect politicians for?
Wht not leave her as the railway minister for her state only? this is a national calamity and we need a leader that relfects that sentiment. An outright insult to those who lost their lives for no fault of their own and the railway minister turns a blind eye!