Mamata at 1

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who completes a year in office on May 20, has given herself a perfect score. It is 100 out of 100, she says. In her report card, everything that her party had promised in the run-up to the 2011 assembly polls is claimed to have been achieved. During the next four years, she plans to merely monitor schemes and initiatives that have already been set in motion. This is of a piece with the language of hyperbole and self-assertion that has marked Banerjee’s rule over the past one year. Industrial investment worth Rs 80,000 crore is assured and 280,000 government jobs have been created — these are but fragments from a list of achievements that keeps lengthening by the day.

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