He is known to be confident and articulate and unlike many other junior ministers, Minister of State for Health Dinesh Trivedi never complains of lack of work or stepmotherly treatment from his senior.
While casually interacting with journalists on several issues, he was asked the secret of his confidence. Pat came the reply: “Mere paas Didi hai” – a reference to party’s paramount leader Mamata Banerjee.
If sources are to be believed, Trivedi uses this phrase often in the ministry – sometimes to make his officers smile and at other times to keep at bay any threat from big UPA brother Congress.
His line, of course, is a spin off on the famous Bollywood dialogue: “Mera paas ma hai”!
