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Even as the CPI(M) and the CPI MPs are maintaining a distance from the railway minister, their bete noire Mamata Banerjee, another Left Front constituent — Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) — seems to have decided to grab the opportunity provided by having a railway minister from West Bengal. On Tuesday, an RSP member in the Rajya Sabha, Abani Roy, rushed to meet Banerjee as soon as he heard that the railway minister was meeting MPs for Budget consultations. Roy handed over a memorandum to Banerjee with nine appeals, including a Garib Rath between Delhi and Kolkata, a stoppage of the Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express in West Bengal and some new rail links in Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. Banerjee didn’t give any commitment to the Leftist, who is a part of her rival Left Front in West Bengal.