Asok, Deepa slam Mamata over Teesta
statesman news service
SILIGURI/BALURGHAT, 8 SEPT: When the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, is supposed to have torpedoed the much-publicised Teesta deal, involving India and Bangladesh, evidently to cater to her newly-acquired north Bengal constituency, two prominent political leaders from the region, Mrs Deepa Dasmunshi, known as the bete noire of the chief minister, and the CPI-M strongman from Darjeeling district, Mr Asok Bahattacharya, slammed Miss Banerjee, terming her decision to stay away from the bilateral meeting in Dhaka as “a monumentally suicidal one”.
“The chief minister cannot be faulted for trying to protect the interests of the state she leads. But her gesture on the matter is not in sync with the culture of Bengal. When the Prime Minister was visiting the neighbouring country after a span of over a decade to better bilateral relations involving two important players in the volatile region, the chief minister from West Bengal should have shown the minimum courtesy,” she said.
“The stance the chief minister has taken on the sensitive issue has come as a bolt from the blue. She did not raise cavil when the National Security Adviser, Mr Shiv Shankar Menon met her and finalised the nitty gritty of the PM’s trip to Bangladesh. Her idiosyncratic decision would not just tell upon the bilateral ties which started thawing after ages but would harm the interests of the state in the long run. Miss Banerjee missed the golden opportunity to better relation with our neighbour ~ a tragic failure in view of the success Jyoti Basu achieved,” she said.
Echoing her, the former state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya said that Miss Banerjee should not have made the impulsive decision. “We wonder whether her decision is in consonance with the principles on which our country’s federal polity is based,” he said. “We have all along demanded a 25 per cent water share from Teesta. But there is a decorum to place the state’s point of view, particularly when the stakes involving India were high on the matter. She would have better convened an all-party meeting instead of unilaterally gone for such a suicidal decision,” the senior CPI-M leader opined.
Asok, Deepa slam Mamata over Teesta
statesman news serviceSILIGURI/BALURGHAT, 8 SEPT: When the chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, is supposed to have torpedoed the much-publicised Teesta deal, involving India and Bangladesh, evidently to cater to her newly-acquired north Bengal constituency, two prominent political leaders from the region, Mrs Deepa Dasmunshi, known as the bete noire of the chief minister, and the CPI-M strongman from Darjeeling district, Mr Asok Bahattacharya, slammed Miss Banerjee, terming her decision to stay away from the bilateral meeting in Dhaka as “a monumentally suicidal one”.
“The chief minister cannot be faulted for trying to protect the interests of the state she leads. But her gesture on the matter is not in sync with the culture of Bengal. When the Prime Minister was visiting the neighbouring country after a span of over a decade to better bilateral relations involving two important players in the volatile region, the chief minister from West Bengal should have shown the minimum courtesy,” she said.
“The stance the chief minister has taken on the sensitive issue has come as a bolt from the blue. She did not raise cavil when the National Security Adviser, Mr Shiv Shankar Menon met her and finalised the nitty gritty of the PM’s trip to Bangladesh. Her idiosyncratic decision would not just tell upon the bilateral ties which started thawing after ages but would harm the interests of the state in the long run. Miss Banerjee missed the golden opportunity to better relation with our neighbour ~ a tragic failure in view of the success Jyoti Basu achieved,” she said.
Echoing her, the former state urban development minister, Mr Asok Bhattacharya said that Miss Banerjee should not have made the impulsive decision. “We wonder whether her decision is in consonance with the principles on which our country’s federal polity is based,” he said. “We have all along demanded a 25 per cent water share from Teesta. But there is a decorum to place the state’s point of view, particularly when the stakes involving India were high on the matter. She would have better convened an all-party meeting instead of unilaterally gone for such a suicidal decision,” the senior CPI-M leader opined.
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