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Mamata
Banerjee flexes her muscle by getting Dinesh Trivedi to resign, thereby
pre-empting his game plan to split the Trinamool Congress
THE equation
the Congress had with the Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee has
taken a sudden, unforeseen turn from the time Railway Minister Dinesh
Trivedi placed his maiden rail budget in the Lok Sabha. The situation,
however, is almost a repeat of what happened in 2008 except for the end
result. That time Prakash Karat had to bow out; this time Mamata
Banerjee is still going strong.
Mamata
Banerjee wants to make the Left redundant in Indian politics. She
intends to do that by copying everything that the Left used to do. And
that has made a confrontation between her and Manmohan Singh, the top
neo-liberal leader in our country, inevitable. In 2008, Karat took on
Manmohan Singh and tried desperately to stop the ‘operationalisation’ of
the Indo-US nuke deal. Up to a point, he even got support from Sonia
Gandhi who was keen to avoid a showdown. But finally, Karat lost out to an obdurate Prime Minister.
This
time Mamata has taken on Manmohan Singh by stalling his favourite
policy decision, opening up the retail sector for FDI. This time again,
the Samajwadi Party is ready to be the saviour of the government. And
again, for the time being, Sonia Gandhi has not allowed a showdown with
Mamata. The rest – the controversial rail budget and its fallout, or
skirmishes over RS candidature in Bengal – are just spin-offs.
This time, Dinesh
Trivedi was the chosen one of the Prime Minister to repeat the
performance of Somnath Chatterjee in 2008. The goal then and now was the
same: to free the government from the strain of conscientious pro-poor
forces. But four years ago, Singh clashed with an ideologue who had
little knowledge of realpolitik. This time, he is facing a hardcore
political leader. She has won round one, but many more rounds are to go.......READMORE : http://www.gfilesindia.com
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