Mamata only ideal candidate for PM: Mahasweta Devi

30 Jan 2014 Evaluate

Author Mahasweta Devi expressing support for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said that she is the only ideal candidate for prime minister and would like to see her as the next prime minister.

The author said that the Banerjee government did far better work than what the erstwhile Left government managed in its over three decades of rule in the state. The Magsaysay award winner stressed that people's faith in the chief minister is 'increasing day by day'.

Mahasweta Devi also said that was only because of her unselfish attitude and her work for the people that she has been doing selflessly. She praised Banerjee for listening to the down-trodden, the helpless and the poor and added that her work in Junglemahal (Maoist affected areas of the state) and in the Darjeeling hills has been incomparable.

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