The Prez Nomination and the Juggernaut!

Last week we have seen lots of activity in Delhi but Delhi is always famous for the same reason. Be it team Anna or it Ramdev Delhi is always buzzing. This time around the reason for the buzz around the announcement of the candidature for the next president of India.. Whenever she was a minister either with Congress or with NDA, she always did it, your guess is as well as mine. It is Mamata Banerjee, once again she did it but please don’t say ‘once more’ because we Bengali itself fed with her antic. I remember a piece of cartoon by great R. K. Laxman showing that then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who was admitted in the hospital for some reason was running for cover from the backdoor when someone announced that Mamata Banerjee is visiting him.

I wanted to inform Ms. Banerjee, that I am a very apolitical person and also that in last Loksabha election she was a contestant from my constituency and I did vote for her. When I declared to my students that I was one of the fool who too voted for her obviously they asked me how is my feeling now. I only can say that it is go down as one of my biggest mistake concerning my life. May be, she can branded me a CPM cadre, a Maoist, an anti Bengali or may be an anti National, but  her opinion does not bother me any more. Of-course she is running a party which does not have different opinion, only opinion works in her party which only diktat by her. In my earlier blog I praised her and sadly today I am doing it with such contrasting negative feeling. As, her own party member and MP Kabir Suman described her as, either her attitude changed drastically or she is a terrific actress. The way things are going I think we will able publish a full fledged book on her tantrums.

Tantrums of Mamata

While she was a  railway minister, Mamata Banerjee. Accused  of being temperamental, she has irked members of parliament such as Ram Vilas Paswan for throwing her shawl at him after a speech, and for walking out during parliamentary sessions.

After calling the Park Street rape case as "cooked up to malign the government",  Mamata Banerjee did a U-turn and assured all help to the team of National Commission for Women (NCW) but not to the victim or for once she never aphorized to her making such a foolish comment. She again did the same for the victim from Katwa.

She conveyed to prime minister Manmohan Singh that she would not be able to accompany him on his visit to Bangladesh,  as she is not happy with the final draft of the interim deal New Delhi and Dhaka are likely to sign for sharing of the waters of river Teesta. It was clearly a snub to the prime minister, who had invited her to join him on his visit to the eastern neighbour. She cannot rise above the electoral interests, but the way things going we are going to see some changes within or after four years.

At an open house session with the Chief Minister, conducted by CNN-IBN to mark one year of the Trinamool Congress's coming to power in West Bengal, she branded a student as Maoist and CPM cadre. She was asked about the handling of recent crimes against women and the conduct of some senior ministers from her party, by a Presidency University student, Taniya Bhardwaj. She angrily accused the student of being a Maoist, refused to answer questions and stormed off the stage.

This time she was gone too far by snubbing Mr. Pranab Mukherjee’s nomination as next president, when every Bengali wanted it. After rejecting the UPA’s Presidential candidate, she now Mamata Banerjee is sulking in a corner and decided to open her heart in public by taking her woes to Facebook. For over period since UPA-II came into the power, Mamata Banerjee has tried her best to pressurised the government at the centre, blocking almost every reform which caused great damage to the Indian economy, bringing down the growth rate.

The thinker community from Bengal those once supported her too fed of her antic, only baring two. One of them is a squeeze master and other, come on, I think all knows it better than me.

A senior Congress politician has an extraordinary wish for 2012. He wants the Opposition NDA to come to power in the new year for only one reason — so that NDA might suffer Mamata Banerjee's tantrums just as the present coalition has had to bear them.

!!!Hold your card close to your chest but till it is worth using.!!!