Didi's Eccentricities
Earlier the wise had advised Mamata Banerjee to try and keep her mouth shut as much as possible to avoid making a faux pas. She hadn’t listened of course. Now they say it’s just as well, because with every utterance her true colours are coming out and it will help people see the real Didi. In an almost unbelievably callous series of remarks after the rape and murder of a college girl in Kamduni Village, the Bengal Chief Minster kept the entire state outraged through the week. After telling the women of Kamduni who had crowded around her demanding safety (during her visit to the girl’s house ten days after the incident) to “shut up,” she branded them Maoists. Later speaking at a public rally she accused the women, along with Opposition parties CPI-M and Congress for plotting to kill her. She even went to the extent of saying that the news channels which were reporting the matter and their talk show guests were perverts who enjoyed discussing the rapes and that she had secret information that they were into pornography.