Different tracks

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee visited her office at Rail Bhawan for the first time today, and was quite unhappy about the state of things. The phone lines, she said, were not working and there was no one to even help her rearrange the furniture — when Banerjee was the minister during the NDA years, she sat in a particlular part of the office which her predecessor had changed. When reporters asked Banerjee if she was going to the Prime Minister’s dinner, she said she hadn’t been invited to it — ‘maybe because the phone is not working’, she said.