“We love Kerala, please realise”--Mamata Banerjee

"Hum aah bhi bharte hai to ho jaate hai badnaam, woh katl bhi karte hai to charcha nahi hoti"
(Even a sigh from me invites censure; even if they commit a murder it is not discussed)

Miss Mamata Banerjee, displaying her trademark oratorical skills and punctuating her speech with rapid-fire observations, angry outbursts and even snatches from poetry spiced up the presentation of the Railway Budget yesterday.
Miss Banerjee joked, broke into poetry, kept deviating from her speech text to make running comments and asides in order to directly engage with members. 
She also lost her cool on several occasions as she faced vociferous protests from MPs from Bihar, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh who alleged that she had ignored their states while announcing multiple schemes for West Bengal. 

“Dhyan se suno (listen carefully)... sab hai isme (everything is there in the Budget),” she kept telling members who wanted to know the proposals for their respective states and pressed their demands. As some MPs persisted with their enquiries and comments, an annoyed minister asked: “What is this?” “Don’t shout, don’t shout,” she told others.

The House repeatedly plunged into pandemonium, with JD-U MPs from Bihar vociferously raising their protests over alleged neglect of Bihar. She was seen in heated exchange of words with them. At one point, she sat down in a huff, even as parliamentary affairs minister Mr Pawan Bansal and his former deputy Mr V Narayansamy walked to the Opposition benches and tried to pacify the members. 

Providing some lighter moments, Miss Banerjee read out a couplet: “Hum aah bhi bharte hai to ho jaate hai badnaam, woh katl bhi karte hai to charcha nahi hoti (Even a sigh from me invites a bad name while even if they commit a murder it is not discussed)”.

As Miss Banerjee was rattling off the names of new trains and projects, Speaker Mrs Meira Kumar said: “Please don't skip the beautiful couplets you have written.” This prompted her to recite two more couplets, both on soldiers who sacrificed their life for the country.

Ms Banerjee told a Kerala MP, after announcing a factory for Pallakad: “We love Kerala, please realise.” Another time, Ms Banerjee corrected a member, saying, “Rail roko kabhi nahi kiya (have never done a 'stop train' agitation). That is our track record.”