Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, has witnessed floods, rain and over 10 deaths. Most of those who died, died not due to drowning but electrocution due to electric shock from streetlights and traffic poles on the roads.
Condition of Kolkata's Metro after historic rainfall. Who is to blame? pic.twitter.com/g1YEE0WRxI
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However, instead of expressing grief over these deaths and working to prevent such accidents in future, CM Mamata Banerjee is blaming the electricity department for these deaths. Instead of accepting administrative failure, Mamata has blamed the Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC), which supplies electricity to Kolkata.
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— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) September 23, 2025
Meanwhile, the CESC has also washed their hands off the responsibility and said that of the eight deaths reported at the time of the statement, five were caused by faulty internal wiring. CESC said that the two other deaths were linked to lamp posts and hence not their fault. Another death was due to traffic signal kiosk.
Meanwhile, Banerjee has also blamed Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the rainfall in Kolkata claiming that the water from these two states enter the Ganga in West Bengal owing to silt accumulation. She also claimed that whenever it rains in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and other parts of the Gangetic plains, there is waterlogging. She also said how there is a limit to their (likely TMC politicians’) civility and that they could have also commented during the flooding in Uttarakhand, Delhi or Mumbai.
Which is quite amusing. Because her own party leaders seem to have no qualms in commenting on floods in other states while shrugging off responsibilities in their own home states.
Here is TMC MP Sagarika Ghose’s tweet amid Kolkata rains:
Prayers for the safety of all. #KolkataRains https://t.co/dMMV9AUYfZ
— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) September 23, 2025
Ghose is praying for Kolkata, and rightly so. But here is her tweet during Delhi rains.
Delhi has collapsed . Fearsome traffic jams across the city, knee length water logged streets with NO working drainage, not a cop in sight to manage the chaos. @BJP4India has turned Delhi into a DISASTER zone #DelhiRains #DelhiNCR pic.twitter.com/7bYnhwLHmR
— Sagarika Ghose (@sagarikaghose) August 14, 2025
Her tweet blaming the BJP for waterlogging amid heavy downpour in Delhi was little over a month back. Why does she not say the same about Kolkata where her party has been in power for over a decade?
Even though numerous reports indicate that the Meteorological Department had already issued an orange alert for heavy rains in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, and Power Minister Arup Biswas were caught napping.
Not only this, who pocketed the thousands of crores of rupees released by the Asian Development Bank to improve Kolkata’s drainage system? What happened to the Rs 860 crore received in 2024 under the Swachh Bharat Urban Mission?
Today, as Mamata Banerjee, taking a leaf from former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s book, blames everyone from the Centre to electricity company to nature, forgets that at the end of the day, as the chief minister of the state, the buck stops at her.
