Will Bengal FM Chandrima Bhattacharya get some leeway in her portfolios?

Whether Bhattacharya would be content with what could turn out to be a largely ceremonial role in a crucial ministry, remains to be seen

When Chandrima Bhattacharya, finance minister of West Bengal with independent charge but ranked only as a minister of state, presented the state Budget last week, it was reasonable to expect that she might have been clueless about the finer points in the document she was reading. She had no role in its drafting. 

The state’s former finance minister, Amit Mitra, who stepped down from the position because of ill health but continues to enjoy a coveted place as principal chief advisor to the CM on finance and economy, was the one, in all likelihood, who authored the document.

Whether Bhattacharya