So the lady from Kalighat, Kolkata holds parleys with the people
who matter when it comes to policy making in India. As usual, she
ensures that she is the cynosure of media attention when she is in New
Delhi.
She visits the Parliament and lures the media in the company of her MPs. The strive towards getting global publicity earns her some footage in the National Capital and she leaves no stones unturned to bag that. She talks about a Federal Front (anti-BJP and 'so far' anti-Congress) and she dons the role of a behind-the-scene skipper to write the future of a team that will challenge BJP and Congress, as the Indian citizen gets ready to vote in 2019.
She has an open mind. She claims to shirk Constitutional Posts at least at the National level, but she doesn't shy away from taking the message right across to the people of the country. And once again, she makes it a point to showcase her skills to be a force to reckon with beyond the Hooghly river. She is slated to visit Germany soon. She will also be part of the canonisation of Mother Teresa in September.
Too much on the table for her, yet innocence is taken for a ride back home at a South Kolkata locality and her cops hardly take the bull by its horns. Despite her over-the-top appeal to fight The Syndicate Raj in her home state, the common man continues to be a victim of the nefarious designs of some of her party soldiers.
A resounding mandate is all that she capitalises on. Bigger ambitions embolden her to 'tell' one of her MPs in Lok Sabha to back a Punjab-based MP who creates a furore by posting a video on Facebook that puts the security of the Indian Parliament at stake.
Well in the process, she tends to forget the humiliation she was meted out to before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections when she was left to handle an almost-empty Ram Lila Maidan, Delhi. Yet, she nurtures big ambitions and hardly does anyone in her party dare to apprise her of the ground reality.
If she looks around, there are too many aspirants to eye 7, Race Course Road. The current occupant of the prestigious bungalow is too cunning to give up. And then the lady from 10, Janpath is unlikely to be taken casually. Then there are the likes of regional leaders who won't compromise an inch to address the Nation on August 15.
So, before we go ga-ga over a revolutionary Bengali leader all set to call the shots in New Delhi, let's be practical Bengalis. There's a gap between the cup and the sip.
If you think an IIT alumnus or a media-hyped Chief Minister next door is going to let you hog the limelight, you are living in a fool's paradise. And then Amma from Chennai too has ambitions. Naveen Patnaik from Odisha is already taking on his counterpart from Chattisgarh on the barrages over the Mahanadi river. And then you have Netaji from Uttar Pradesh and the ever-ebullient Laluji from Bihar to cope up with (leaders hoping to make it big).
Madame M, even if you put your Prime Ministerial dreams on the back burner, the road ahead isn't that smooth. 211 seats in your own state and more due to your maneuvring power may have placed you in an unchallenged position in your home state, but DIDI, Dilli abhi bhi door hai (Delhi is still far).
Take a flight from Kolkata to Delhi and it takes you a bit above two hours to reach Palam. But to define political equations nationally, a lot needs to be taken a note of beyond the couple-of-hour journey.
She visits the Parliament and lures the media in the company of her MPs. The strive towards getting global publicity earns her some footage in the National Capital and she leaves no stones unturned to bag that. She talks about a Federal Front (anti-BJP and 'so far' anti-Congress) and she dons the role of a behind-the-scene skipper to write the future of a team that will challenge BJP and Congress, as the Indian citizen gets ready to vote in 2019.
She has an open mind. She claims to shirk Constitutional Posts at least at the National level, but she doesn't shy away from taking the message right across to the people of the country. And once again, she makes it a point to showcase her skills to be a force to reckon with beyond the Hooghly river. She is slated to visit Germany soon. She will also be part of the canonisation of Mother Teresa in September.
Too much on the table for her, yet innocence is taken for a ride back home at a South Kolkata locality and her cops hardly take the bull by its horns. Despite her over-the-top appeal to fight The Syndicate Raj in her home state, the common man continues to be a victim of the nefarious designs of some of her party soldiers.
A resounding mandate is all that she capitalises on. Bigger ambitions embolden her to 'tell' one of her MPs in Lok Sabha to back a Punjab-based MP who creates a furore by posting a video on Facebook that puts the security of the Indian Parliament at stake.
Well in the process, she tends to forget the humiliation she was meted out to before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections when she was left to handle an almost-empty Ram Lila Maidan, Delhi. Yet, she nurtures big ambitions and hardly does anyone in her party dare to apprise her of the ground reality.
If she looks around, there are too many aspirants to eye 7, Race Course Road. The current occupant of the prestigious bungalow is too cunning to give up. And then the lady from 10, Janpath is unlikely to be taken casually. Then there are the likes of regional leaders who won't compromise an inch to address the Nation on August 15.
So, before we go ga-ga over a revolutionary Bengali leader all set to call the shots in New Delhi, let's be practical Bengalis. There's a gap between the cup and the sip.
If you think an IIT alumnus or a media-hyped Chief Minister next door is going to let you hog the limelight, you are living in a fool's paradise. And then Amma from Chennai too has ambitions. Naveen Patnaik from Odisha is already taking on his counterpart from Chattisgarh on the barrages over the Mahanadi river. And then you have Netaji from Uttar Pradesh and the ever-ebullient Laluji from Bihar to cope up with (leaders hoping to make it big).
Madame M, even if you put your Prime Ministerial dreams on the back burner, the road ahead isn't that smooth. 211 seats in your own state and more due to your maneuvring power may have placed you in an unchallenged position in your home state, but DIDI, Dilli abhi bhi door hai (Delhi is still far).
Take a flight from Kolkata to Delhi and it takes you a bit above two hours to reach Palam. But to define political equations nationally, a lot needs to be taken a note of beyond the couple-of-hour journey.
DELHI DUR HAI,,,,KOLKATA IS IN YOUR OWN HAND DIDI..... FIRST STOP SYNDICATE RAJ,GUNDA RAJ and etc otherwise WB will diminish from your hand... dnt try this venture.
ReplyDeleteNICE ONE SIR.