For Pranab, the unkindest cut came from Shochin

March 19, 2012 11:53

It seems fortune plotted against Pranab Mukherjee to rob him of his thunder on budget day this year. As if the disastrous state election showing wasn't enough, the Dinesh Trivedi-Mamata Banerjee drama, with Trivedi turning into an unlikely hero overnight with his bolder-than-expected Railway Budget, came as an added show-stealer. But the biggest blow of all for Pranab-da was Sachin Tendulkar's hundredth century, bang on Budget Day, over a year after the Master Blaster scored his last hundred.

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