Why this Mamata di?

With a second piece of critical legislation derailed by Mamata Banerjee, UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi needs to re-evaluate her tactics when it comes to dealing with this mercurial ally. The government withstood the BJP’s opposition to FDI in retail, but decided to pull back two weeks ago when Banerjee said she was against the proposal Banerjee refused to buy the argument that if there were 3 million retailers who could potentially get hit by allowing FDI in retail, there were 30-40 times as many farmers who potentially stood to gain from Big Retail procuring directly from them, doing away with the costs involved in going through the current mandi system.

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