Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, after all, is notthe firsthighWest Bengalofficial to say that rickshaws would be off the streetsofKolkata in a matterof months.
He is BuddhadebBhattacharjee, the state's chief minister, a poet and playwright, the translator of the great Colombian-born novelist and a life-long communist.
It is ironic that perhaps Banerjee's fortunes turned for the better on the day that the cricket-loving BuddhadebBhattacharjee was sworn in as chief minister in 2006.