Change is the only constant

The Congress seems to be promising the same things to the people of West Bengal that brought Mamata Banerjee to power five years ago. Addressing a rally in Cooch Behar, where elections will be held on May 5, state Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday said the Trinamool Congress would be wiped out from the state after the Assembly poll results are declared on May 19. He said poriborton (change) - Banerjee's rallying cry in the run-up to the legislative Assembly election in 2011 - was imperative for West Bengal as in the last five years nothing happened in the state except "false claims and tall talks". "When a child is born in Bengal, she will bear a debt burden of Rs 45,000 as the total debt burden in the state has swelled to Rs 300,000 crore," he claimed.