Vote bank politics!

It’s the best of times for Mamata Banerjee.She’s bagged 34 seats in LS polls. It’s the worst of time for her too. Her arch rival Narendra Modi’s party BJP has clenched whopping 282 seats alone and NDA reached a mind boggling number 332.It’s absolutely gone contrary to her expectation of ‘hung parliament’ which could help her play a pivotal role in national politics. She’s been rather marginalized in stead. However, her anti-Modi stance has paid her dividend. She’s reaped electoral benefit out of her minority vote bank in a big way. She seems to continue the same stance even now with an eye to 2016 Assembly polls. She’s reportedly contemplating to boycott swearing-in ceremony of NDA govt albeit she has not taken final decision on this count. Unlike Jaylalitha who’s already patched up her frayed relation with Modi perhaps considering the ground reality that strained relation with center stands in the way of developmental activities of the state.But Mamata still sticks to anti-Modi pitch. However, Modi has invited her to Delhi for discussion on problems of her state but Mamata is yet to respond. Her govt is encumbered with huge loan and cash starved. So she needs special financial assistance from center to overcome this stringent situation. Unless she tries to improve her relation with Modi,it’s our state that would suffer most.So the sooner she relent and soften her anti-Modi stance, the better.