Netizens hail ‘Daredevil Dinesh’

KOLKATA: Dinesh Trivedi need not feel beleaguered. A flood of posts on facebook and twitter have hailed his bold budget and commended him for showing some spunk. And more important, a fair number of his constituents from Barrackpore, the constituency he represents in the Lok Sabha, have expressed unequivocal support for him.
All the posts on facebook hail Trivedi for shunning populism and having the courage to disregard the wishes of his party supremo to present a pragmatic and “excellent” rail budget.Kolkata-based social activist and environment engineer Sauman Das Gupta lauds ‘Daredevil Dinesh’ for “placing interests of country above party”. Mumbai PR executive Kedar Tadkodkar’s post reads: “good job…Dinesh Trivedi put neck on line for larger cause”. Sunil Chandra Saha, a rail employee from Cooch Behar, thanks Trivedi for his “brave decision” in hiking railway fares which, he says, is small and won’t affect the people. Rohit Kandarp, student of Symbiosis, Pune, thanks Trivedi for shunning “populist politics” while Ashutosh Trivedi, a postal department employee from Agra, says the rail budget is in the interests of the country.
Shanker Singhal, systems engineer at Infosys at Bangalore, writes on Trivedi’s facebook wall: “You have showed we still have some good leaders and they have the will to take development decision even by going against their own supremos and respect their duties. I hope other ministers will learn lesson from you. Kudos to you sir”. Bijoy Kumar Nandi of Alipurduar says he’s proud to have a “brave” person as a Railway Minister and Bhaskar Majumder, a teacher from the same town, while praising Trivedi, predicts that just as Mamata Banerjee single-handedly brought her party to power, she’ll cause its extinction in a similar fashion.
Sachin Hallad, who works at Mahindra Satyam in Banglaore, Brajendra Kumar of Darbhanga, Barrackpore teacher Rajib Patra, and IBM employee Abhishek Ganguly are just a handful of the hundreds who posted messages on facebook or wrote on Trivedi’s facebook wall wall extolling his boldness and criticizing the Trinamool chief.
The strongest words of support came from the likes of Balaram Gharai (trader), Nabin Mondal (school teacher), Pabitra Haldar (student) and many other residents of Barrackpore who pledged their continued support for Trivedi and urged him to take on the “mercurial Mamata”.
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