Today, Mamata Banerjee will make what she has described as "hard decisions"- the West Bengal chief minister will consult her party leaders to finalize whether she should quit the Prime Minister's coalition over a menu of splashy reforms announced last week. Ms Banerjee has described those reforms as against the interest of the people. But she is equally aware that if she parachutes out of the government, other regional powerhouses will prop up the coalition, and so little will change in the political landscape at the centre, other than her own absence. Her party acknowledges that is a reality. "We have to take a decision which proves that we do not bark without a bite... we are ready to make tough sacrifices," said Saugata Roy, a union minister from her party, the Trinamool Congress. The government says it's confident that its allies will come around.
