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Mamata loses cool, walks out of TV programme
Saturday May 19, 2012 04:57:03 PM,
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Kolkata: West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, known for losing cool over
uncomfortable questions, Friday walked out of an interactive TV
programme following a barrage of questions over the arrest of a
professor for forwarding a cartoon depicting her.
Banerjee, while referring to the arrest of Jadavpur University's
Ambikesh Mahapatra, said: "We all love cartoons. What he
circulated was not a cartoon. He (professor) is a CPI-M (Communist
Party of India-Marxist) man. He misused the e-mail of his housing
society without the permission of the residents."
Mahapatra, a professor of physical chemistry, in his 50s, was
arrested last month for allegedly circulating defamatory cartoons
of some Trinamool Congress leaders including Banerjee.
"The message in the cartoon said 'vanish'. It is a political
conspiracy to murder me," said Banerjee in the interactive session
organised by an English news channel.
When a student of Jadavpur University wanted to ask a question,
Banerjee shot back: "Why (students from) other universities are
not here? There are so many universities."
She even asked the student whether she was a Maoist. The student
retorted: "I am not a Maoist."
When told that she had supported the Maoists after their leader
Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad was killed, an infuriated Banerjee
replied: "This is not correct. We did not support the Maoists."
Enraged by the questions, Banerjee suddenly pointed at the
students sitting in the audience and said: "They are CPI-M cadres.
I am not going to reply. I will reply to questions from common
people. I am sorry to say you belong to CPI-M. You are SFI
cadres."
Before storming out, Banerjee told the moderator: "You did not
tell me before."
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