that allowing fdi in retail will help the economy mukherjee said at a media event yet despite this recognition often narrow political gains take precedence over early implementation of a policy framework when it is being done in a calibrated and sensitive manner the finance minsters remarks were read as aimed at trinamool along with others and could not have facilitated the outreach towards banerjee her nominee railway minister dinesh trivedi stayed away from the meeting of the union cabinet on thursday in what was interpreted as a protest against mukherjees snub to him earlier another trinamool minister c m jatua minister of state in information and broadcasting ministry skipped an event organized by his ministry to unveil the davp calendar for 2012 in all 1718 ministers turned up for the meeting