WB: Inheriting a legacy of improvidence

Once again, 15 years after P.V. Narasimha Rao lost the general election and took his finance minister, Manmohan Singh, with him out of the government, a finance minister is doing reforms. His name is Amit Mitra. He is no relative of Ashok Mitra, who preceded him as finance minister of West Bengal some decades ago. The two could not be more different. Ashok Mitra is an angry once-young man who never grew out of his acerbity; Amit Mitra cannot take his smile off.

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