Asok asks Didi to go slow

Asok asks Didi to go slow

24 June 2011

manas ranjan banerjee
SILIGURI, 24 JUNE: Apparently recovering from the electoral drubbing, the former state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya, sarcastically advised  the new state government to go slow on development.
“The members of the new government should remember the adage that one moves faster when one is not in a hurry,” he said during a media conference in Siliguri yesterday. 
Not naming the chief minister and her colleagues, the former minister said they were running fast but are on a wrong track. “The result would be a disaster for the common people if they keep moving the same way. Development can hardly be brought about overnight. It warrants right and long-term planning and sustained and painstaking endeavour,” he said.
Taking potshot at Miss Mamata Banerjee, Mr Bhattacharya said that the Switzerland cacophony would turn ludicrous unless it was duly supported by ground-level seriousness.
“Are those who keep renting the sky with the Switzerland fantasy aware that the climate has been changing fast turning the region more sweltering and sultry than ever? The humidity we have been experiencing here is something uncharacteristic for the sub-Himalayan region. Does the fantasy bring comfort when we keep sweating all through?” the CPI-M leader asked. 
“I would rather ask the new government to go slow and steady without rushing for magical mumbo-jumbo,” he said.