Don't ruin a friendship

While Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee was talking about her achievements in her reply on the Railway Budget in the Rajya Sabha, BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy delivered what he considered a googly: “Madam, if you are so successful, then why is your predecessor Lalu Prasad criticising you?” The idea was to provoke Mamata just a few hours after the UPA’s firefighters managed to arrive at some kind of truce on the Women’s Reservation Bill with allies like Lalu Prasad and Mulayam Singh Yadav. Banerjee decided not to fall into Rudy’s trap and was quite direct in her reply, “Rudyji, just now we have forged a friendship, why do you want to make us enemies again?”