Sunday, April 22, 2012

Mamta tom toms

After facing widespread criticism for banning some newspapers in public libraries, Mamta Banerjee on Thursday asked people not to watch two-three news channels "of the Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M)."

"There are two to three television channels of the CPI(M) that you should not watch. Instead listen to songs on other channels," she said, in the backdrop of the flak that she has drawn over recent developments like the arrest of a professor for circulating a cartoon online which the authorities thought was defamatory for her.

Speaking at an official function in Basirhat of neighbouring North 24 Parganas, Banerjee also advised the people to watch particular entertainment, music and news channels which she named.

A day after, addressing government doctors, the chief minister asked the media not to enter hospitals without permission.

"Don't enter hospital premises. Though I don't need permission, I still take permission of the hospital superintendent before entering hospital premises. I do it since that's a basic courtesy," she said.

With her government close to completing a year, Banerjee is also losing no chance to tom-tom her regime's achievements.

"I will give my government 100 out of 100," "we have completed in less than a year over 90 percent of the work we had set out to do in five years," she has said in various programmes.

On Thursday, the chief minister went a step ahead and said her government had done 10 years' work within this time.

Senior Communist Party of India - Marxist leader and leader of the opposition in the state assembly Surjya Kanta Mishra was bitingly sarcastic.

"She is herself the paper setter, examinee and examiner. She is doing the tabulation also. What more can I say?" "As railway minister, she has sent the railways to the Intensive Care Unit. Now she is putting the state on the road to the Intensive Care Unit," Mishra said.

Mamta Banerjee and Lalu Yadav have two things in common. Lalu destroyed Bihar first and then destroyed the railways. Mamta destroyed the railways first and is now destroying Bihar. Of course, Mamta's able assistant Mukul Roy is continuing Mamta's good work of destroying the Railways

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