Mr Kumar, burning inside out over the attempt of the BJP to destabilise his government through dalit leader Jitan Ram Manjhi, sarcastically asked his erstwhile saffron comrades to refashion their religio-political slogan “Jai Shri Ram” as “Jai Shri Jitan Ram (Manjhi)”.Amid laughter and thumping of desk, Mr Kumar, the no-nonsense JD(U) leader counselled the BJP legislators and leaders for political salvation that “instead of chanting Jai Shri Ram should start reciting Jitan Ram if you want to glorify Mr Manjhi”.”But Aparna is certainly not the kind to take any such advice seriously. Aparna is the brand ambassador of an NGO that works for women. Today, he is a mere Rajya Sabha MP banished to the last row in the Upper House and Ms Banerjee is contemplating strong action against him. He should have remembered the fate of heavyweight leaders like the late Ajit Panja, Subrata Mukherjee and Sudip Bandopadhyay, who had tried to cross Ms Banerjee’s path. Mr Kumar was replying to the three-hour-long debate on the confidence motion. “There is only one post in the Trinamul Congress — which is held by party supremo, the rest are mere lampposts.A masterstroke 16RDGUWAHATI.
Though the reshuffle took place in January, Mr Gogoi played a masterstroke by holding back four vacancies in his council of ministers and hinted to fill it up some time between March and April. Party circles are now agog with talks of Aparna trying to outdo her sister-in-law Dimple Yadav and making her presence felt in politics. As if this was not enough to infuriate the BJP leaders, JD(U) spokesperson Neeraj Kumar also took a dig at the BJP.Ms Banerjee, who had declared war against the CBI and accused the Modi government of using it to settle political scores, saw red. Didi, the lone rulerMukul Roy, who was till recently the second-in-command in the Trinamul Congress, is now persona non grata in the party. However, the whole equation changed after Mr Roy came out smiling from the CBI office after a five-hour long interrogation on January 30, singing praises of the central agency. She told reporters that BBC had actually “raped” India. Mr Roy’s dream of splitting the Trinamul Congress has remained just a dream.
