Couple of other points about calcutta what your colleague missed and part of the folklore about calcutta
1. Most of the people in calcutta are rickshawpullers 2. Whoever is not pulling a rickshaw is sick and has got leprosy 3. Most of the people live on the streets and eat from dustbins 4. All bengalis are communist and they are plotting a revolution in India
I am surprised to know how could you see our present CM as capable, he is a bong and lives in calcutta and part of a decadent culture, I thought all bongs lack capability and culture in the rest of India sense.