After going on the offensive against social networking sites, including Facebook, for allegedly spreading malicious campaign against her government, the West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee, now has turned to the same media to champion her cause in the Presidential election.
Late on Saturday when reporters asked her to comment on Mr Pranab Mukherjee emerging as the Congress' choice for President, Ms Banerjee said: “I have said what I had to on Facebook. And I will tell what I have to there.”
Taking up the campaign for Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's candidature as President through the social networking site, the Trinamool Congress chief late on Friday night said her choice of the President was the choice of millions of Indians.
Debuting on social networking site Facebook, she wrote her first post on the page “MamataBanerjeeOfficial”.
“I gave voice to what millions of Indians want to see in a President,” she wrote.
Refusing to budge from her stand, Ms Banerjee wrote: “My party is a small party. But we stand by truth and conviction. I stand by the position I have taken.”
Reiterating her support for Mr Kalam, Ms Banerjee said her party was firm on his candidature, and that the “missile man” was the fittest for the post. “We are not shifting from our stand of what we have announced earlier," Ms Banerjee said.
Snubbed by ally Congress at Delhi, Ms Banerjee had on Friday night (around 9 p.m.) said that “the game has just begun” while referring to the candidate selection for the Presidential polls.
Nearly four hours later, around 12-30 pm, the post seeking support for Mr Kalam's candidature as President was put up her “official page”.
Her post, characteristically, began with Rabindranath Tagore's verses from the poem “Where the Mind is without fear” and read: …. He (Mr Kalam) is the kind of man all our citizens aspire to make President.”