“I am too old now I don’t want to be the Chief Minister of West Bengal” says Siddhartha Shankar Ray (70) President of the WBPCC (I) and former Governor of Punjab.
Politics it seems was never Ray’s first love. “I had two ambitions in life” Ray told The Telegraph recently “To get an Oxford blue in cricket and to be the state’s Advocate-General”.
Even though he rose in public life holding public and political offices as a Union Minister West Bengal’s Chief Minister Governor of Punjab and now PCC (I) chief his more modest ambitions however remained unrealized
A death in the family preventing his going to Oxford His firm belief remains that he would have made a “good cricketer” and most probably played for the university
B.C. Roy as Chief Minister never let him become the state’s Advocate General.
So he could never fulfill his two long cherished ambitions. Another term as Chief Minister would never make amends for the things he could never be. No doubt he is disillusioned
Article extracted from this publication >> June 7, 1991
