Mamata Banerjee used saucepan for bath in US

Last Updated: Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:26

Tags: Mamata Banerje, My Unforgettable Memories, US

Kolkata: In life as in politics, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is known to have unconventional ways, like when she used saucepans for taking bath during her trip to New York in 1998 or bought lip balms mistaking them for lipsticks.

"I had left a saucepan in the bathroom because in American hotels, it is difficult to get buckets or mugs. When I entered my room, I bumped into the cleaning lady and she was quite bewildered about the saucepan in the bathroom," Banerjee writes in her just-published memoirs "My Unforgettable Memories".

"I tried to explain to her that I use it to take my bath but she just could not understand," she says recalling the funny incident.

Call her unsmart or whatever, the chief minister once rode pillion on a motorbike in rural Bengal and even now wears 'hawai chappals' (rubber slippers) to office.

She was candid enough to say in her book, "When it comes to things like this (shopping), I am not very smart; in fact, kids today are far smarter than me."

She said she had never been fond of dressing up and wearing make-up.

PTI

First Published: Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:15

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Tarun - Delhi
If such politicians are running country no wonder world thinks we are still in era of snake charmers and rope climbing sadhu’s. If such people are running the country then god knows what our planners are going to plan for India to become world power. After getting post she should have known that she has to change and adopt new things to guide people for betterment if she does not know how to use toilet, what she will run, like railway in losses next ministry will be in red and loss giving to nation. God bless the voters who choose her.

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Rohit - India
Don`t worry my dear brother, Mamata Banerjee started her journey from a very lower middle class background. At that time, so many lower middle class people were not aware of sophisticated items, though their education & intelligence was not less than that of sophisticated people. Sophistication is a learning process. A new born child learn sophistication from his parents and surroundings, but that has no link with the in-born talent. Autobiography of most of the great personalities reveals that.

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Dr. M C Gupta, Advocate - Delhi
It is refreshing to know that we still have leaders who are simple and unassuming and wear hawai chappals as CM in the office and are more comfortable using a saucepan as a substitute for the non-existent bucket and mug in an American hotel. prefer to use a bucket and