“Their sense of prestige and pride is not for holding lofty ideals, but for promoting their own personal interests,” the former railway minister said.
Trivedi kept insisting that his remarks had no bearing on Bengal politics, yet he found a common strand binding him with Gandhiji as both were thrown out of train.
His humour at his own cost drew loud cheers when he asserted that like Gandhiji he also had no regrets (he was sacked as railway minister by his party chief Mamata Banerjee).
Trivedi said current politicians had been reduced to play cameo roles because political parties had been taken over by the mafia with immense power, while political leaders patronise sycophants and hangers-on.
