Re: {LONGTERMINVESTORS} Politics... Discussion Thread
RAJESH DESAI
Trivedi must stay till session ends: Cong to Mamata
The Congress pointed out to her that sacking a minister mid session and swearing-in another would not send out a good signal.Mamata is economically illiterate: Biocon chief
--New Delhi: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, an Indian entrepreneur and chairman and MD of Biocon Limited came out strongly against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, tweeting that her party was going to be a "bane" for West Bengal.
"Mamta is a dangerous, populist demagogue: economically illiterate but politically astute - deadly combo!" Shaw tweeted.
"Mamta is a sad reflection on just how feudal our society and culture is - talk of human rights!" she added.
Shaw continued, "Yielding to Mamta n showing Trivedi the door is a very sad day for Indian politics - UPA Govt is in office but not in power. Mamta is behaving like a mad despot. Political leadership is in deficit with such irrational behaviour that can only harm the poor.
"Dinesh Trivedi has come out with a well thought out railway budget but shot down by a thoughtless interfering despotic Mamta Bannerji.
Meanwhile, entrepreneur Rahul Bajaj took on the West Bengal chief minister, saying, "It was a very bold budget and he is a brave man to take such a tough call of increasing fares after ten years. I would have wished to see him around as the Railways Minister. However, it is very unfortunate that his own party is now distancing him."
"It is not a happy situation," he added.
Tanya Mehra.
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CA. Rajesh Desai
RAJESH DESAI
Mamata’s hypocrisy: Roll back rail fares but raise prices in Bengal
Practice what you preach isn’t something the mercurial Mamata Banerjee believes in. How else would you explain the West Bengal chief minister’s act of hiking power, milk and transport prices in her state after leading a crusade against rail minister Dinesh Trivedi for raising passenger fares?
Mamata has already made power and milk dearer and her government is now considering a proposal to increase tram fares, reports Business Standard.
If only the Bengal CM practised what she preached. AFP
In fact, since the Trinamool Congress came to power Mamata has allowed prices across the state power utilities to be quietly increased three times, a cumulative rise of 29.5 percent, adds the report.
Besides power, Mamata has made milk, a household essential, costlier by Rs 6 per litre. And, it is expected to become dearer by another Rs 4 per litre in the next couple of months.
In the transport sector, Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) has come out with a proposal to increase tram fares up to Rs 1.50 to revive the ailing transport systems, after the government declared it would withdraw the annual Rs 600 crore subsidy from transport corporations.
So what wrong did Dinesh Trivedi do? Why was he sacked? And why does the hypocrite Mamata still reign? The former railway minister himself gave us the answer when he revealed that his sacking had nothing to do with the passenger fare hike and that there was too much politics in the country.
Clearly, raising prices of utilities, essentials and jacking up transport fares speaks volumes of the Trinamool’s dual stance.
As CPI-M Central Committee member Mohammed Salim told Business Standard, “By increasing the electricity tariff, they have proved that though they dramatise incidents, the government in Bengal is following the same “Manmohanomics”, by putting pressure on the common man.”
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CA. Rajesh Desai
RAJESH DESAI
Mamata walks out of show, calls students Maoists
The West Bengal Chief Minister lost her cool and stormed out of a CNN-IBN show when students asked her about crime against women.--
CA. Rajesh Desai