Saturday, August 22, 2009
Assessment of Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee, the "anti-communist hero from Asian soil" -- this is the advice of a former Punjab Minister to British premier Gordon Brown who recently profiled eight influential figures of 20th century. Impressed by Brown's book 'Courage' that profiles leaders like Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi and Martin Luther King. Former state finance minister Surinder Singla said a person of British Prime Minister's eminence should write about the "hideous ideology" of communism. In a letter, Singla suggested to Brown that he could write about Railway Minister Banerjee, an "Asian woman who courageously fought Marxists firmly and single-handedly" in West Bengal. The long journey of three decades did not tire her and she continued to face the most brutal and oppressive regime"
IMO: That sounds a very fair comment about Didi. Didi is up there with the best of them. Hopefully the worst excesses of the unfortunate CPI(M) will now be constrained. There is still the Naxalite threat with its international implications.
IMO: That sounds a very fair comment about Didi. Didi is up there with the best of them. Hopefully the worst excesses of the unfortunate CPI(M) will now be constrained. There is still the Naxalite threat with its international implications.
# posted by uv : 5:11 AM
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