But Mamata Banerjee can claim one tangible change: Akhilesh Yadav has issued an open letter for the first time in English. The Samajwadi leader and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, always careful to speak only in Hindi in public, has reached out to a national audience by applauding Mamata Banerjee through the letter addressed to “all my fellow Indians”. To quote his own cabinet minister and colleague, Mr Nitin Gadkari, “one who cannot manage his home cannot manage the country”. In attacking Mamata Banerjee, these two and a half men forget her past. I call on our fellow Indians who work at these institutions to stand up and be counted and I pray that our fellow Indians who work in the media will speak truth to power without fear or favour.

Source: The Telegraph February 05, 2019 21:33 UTC