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Hindi and
Urdu too... Mamata is picture of confidence
Friday February 25, 2011 03:42:37 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Budget presentations can be dry affairs with ministers poring into
papers in front of them and rarely looking up as they reel out
figures. Not so with Mamata Banerjee, who departed from the text
frequently to address the house, admonish and even recited an Urdu
couplet during the rail budget Friday.
Breaking into heavily accented Hindi off and on, Banerjee was the
picture of confidence as she presented her third rail budget.
"Hum aah bhi bharte hain toh ho jaate hai badnaam; woh qatl bhi
karte hain to charcha nahin hota," Banerjee said towards the
beginning of the presentation. The reference was to the flak that
employees of the railways get everytime something goes wrong,
ignoring all the good work that is done.
She looked up frequently from the papers in front of her, getting
angry and cajoling in turn as she asked the members to listen on
patiently. The minister had clearly read the reams of papers well
before coming to the house.
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