TIOL-DDT 1146 · Friday, 3 July 2009 · story 4 of 4

Railway Budget – Didi’s Bangalee English is the only problem

Didi, Mamta Banerjee is all set to present the Railway Budget. She is not exactly new to the Rail Bhavan, but she has more allegiance to the headquarters of Eastern Railways at Kolkata. Rail Ministers are known to shower goodies for their states. Her illustrious predecessor from Bengal was known as the Minister for Malda.

But what is immediately required is for Speaker of Lok Sabha, Meira Kumar to arrange for translation of Didi Mamta Banerjee’s speech into English. Mamta no doubt speaks English, but it sounds so Bengalee that outside Bengal nobody would understand her. So there should be some simultaneous translation facility to translate her English speech into understandable English.