Didi and her hunger strike
From Outlook India Online:
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Defying Medical Science
Mamata has been fasting for the past 25 days now (as on Thursday, Dec 28) and, if her aides are to be believed, she hasn’t had even a drop of water. It’s only over the past three days that she has stopped addressing the gawking crowds of onlookers. On Day 7, she spat fire for 70 long minutes and on Day 18, she spoke without a pause for 40 minutes. These ‘feats’ have raised eyebrows and many doctors are now wondering if the lady is really on a total fast. By now, they say, her blood pressure and pulse rate should have dropped to dangerous levels, she should have been unable to speak or even murmur a word, she should have started hallucinating and her vital organs should have been affected. The only sign of weakness that Mamata has displayed (and then, only over the past three days) is lying down on her cot and not going ballistic over Singur. But while doctors are skeptical, Mamata ’s supporters are awe-struck at the physical prowess of ‘Didi’. One of them (an MLA, no less) suggested to reporters that Mamata could even have been bestowed supernatural powers! Just goes to show the sort of people who flock around Mamata Banerjee.
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