Yes, she has been in the news in the recent past for all the wrong reasons. It’s outright insecure for a national leader of an intellectual and free-thinking state like West Bengal to target a professor for forwarding a cartoon!

It’s also ridiculous to talk of turning Calcutta into London by painting the trees blue. Apart from arguably destroying the future of Railways by compromising on possible safety upgradations by not increasing railway fares, Mamata has hardly done anything worthwhile for the state’s education, health or employment situation while continuing to work in a very autocratic highhanded manner.u00a0Thus, many would argue she indeed has rightly won the ire of intellectuals of Bengal who supported her so wholeheartedly, and are now deserting her.