Bengal first, Delhi later

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is currently busy campaigning for the upcoming municipal polls in West Bengal. While the poll is supposed to be about local issues like water supply, sewerage, roads, etc., her opponents are raking up the issue of the minister’s prolonged absence from the Capital and her ministerial duties. An angry Banerjee lost her cool and said, “Why should I go to Delhi, is Dilli ka laddoo my home? India is my motherland and Bengal is my homeland.” She also launched a counter-attack on the CPI(M) over this issue and said, “CPI(M) wants me to stay away from Bengal so that it can carry on with its atrocities. But I will remain in Bengal and not allow the comrades to run their writ.”