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Didi to walk in protest rally against NRC

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Trinamool Chairperson Mamata Banerjee will walk in a protest rally today against National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, which has excluded 19 lakh people. The rally will begin at Sinthi More and end at Shyambazar. Apart from Didi, elected representatives and party functionaries of Trinamool will be present in the rally.

Last week, the West Bengal Assembly had passed a resolution against implementation of NRC in the State. Didi had always maintained that NRC is nothing but political vendetta by the BJP-led government at the Centre.

After the final draft of NRC in Assam was published, she had tweeted: “The NRC fiasco has exposed all those who tried to take political mileage out of it. They have a lot to answer to the nation. This is what happens when an act is guided by an ulterior motive rather than the good of the society and the larger interest of the nation.”

She added, “My heart goes out to all those, especially the large number of Bengali speaking brothers and sisters, who are made to suffer because of this botched-up process.”

 

Mamata Banerjee fights jet lag – With a walk around in London

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Mamata Banerjee beat her jet-lag in her own quintessential style, by walking around London.

After breakfast at the St James Court – where the Chief Minister of Bengal is staying during her 5-day visit to London – Ms Banerjee decided to take a walk around the streets of London, apparently to beat jet lag. The 7-km walk was done in quintessentially Mamata Banerjee style – rubber flip flops and cotton saree and a shawl to beat the cold winds.

She decided to walk down Victoria Street and led herself into St James Park – no Google maps, no local Londoner to show her the way. That was the way she explored central London.

The walk ended with a visit to a coffee shop. Coffee shops like these were “a must” in Kolkata and may mean more jobs, an official recalled her saying.

The Mayor of Kolkata was said to have a verbal message sent to her through an official was accompanying her. The message: “Please look around London, and see if we can take ideas for the city of Kolkata back with us”.

Back home, the Chief Minister has already started a project to beautify the Hooghly (Ganga) river, taking London’s Thames river as a model.

 

The article was first published in NDTV website