Mamata has dinner with Pratibha
After a long absence from the capital as is her wont, Union railway minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is back in the capital. So on Tuesday she had a nearly hour-long meeting with President Pratibha Patil over dinner.
While Trinamul party sources sought to dismiss the meeting as a courtesy call, it is not without significance given Ms Banerjee’s frequent complaints to the Centre about the deteriorating law and order situation in her home state of West Bengal. She has frequently met Union home P. Chidambaram in the last one year to draw his attention to the law and order situation in the Left-ruled state and the alleged atrocities perpetrated by the Left cadres.
The complaints, of course, have also been seen as a ploy to have the assembly elections in Bengal which are slated for mid-2011 advanced. In making this demand, Ms Banerjee will clearly be hoping to make gains on the electoral front given that her party has been faring exceedingly well in the elections to various bodies held over the last one year. The most recent one being the elections to the civic bodies in Kolkata and other parts of Bengal.
The Left which has been tasting defeat at the Trinamul’s hands now faces the likelihood of being dislodged from Writer’s Building in Kolkata after having occupied it for over three decades. Of course the Left too has been accusing Trinamul workers of indulging in violence against its cadres.
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