A section of the Left Front government in West Bengal wants dissolution of the state assembly and to go for polls as early as possible. That would be a very prudent idea, but for the ones in power, abjuration is not that simple as it is said. The anger against the Left Front has reached its peak and there is no point in continuing with abject refusal by the polity every other day. Any new policies, any new development plans will be turned around them and rejected hands down – they have lost the face.
This is the right time to quit, as Gorbachov once said,” A party or a person who has been in power for too long is no more than a tyrant.” Left Front does not realise that there is no legitimate alternative to them – Trinomool Congress is riding on the wave of sympathy and on the apathy towards Left Front. Trinomool's win in the 2010 will ensure that Left Front comes back to power with triumphant majority in 2015. Why waste a year if the writing in the wall is clear?
Five years will be good enough to reinvent the grass root level cadre base for the left. The flab needs to be shed and running on the treadmill for five years will do more than what is prescribed. Five years will be a good enough time for the leftist turned sycophants to be sidelined unless they kick the bucket themselves. The situation for the Left is not as bad as the BJP; they only need to reinvent the method of communication. Pigeons may be the best way of reaching a message to the villages in sixties but now even Harimadhav or Rahim chacha has a 3G enabled iPhone. The Berlin Wall of Bengal is made of bricks of strong ideology gone wrong; so you need some time to break it.
Trinomool Congress is a bunch of clowns who are fooling around. They have never realised that they do not have any ideology or for the fact that you cannot run further with a borrowed idea. “Ma, mati ar manush” of Trinomool is no different from the land reform movement that the Left Front started in the sixties. Shabbir Kumar could not last long copying Mohammad Rafi – if Trinomool wants to last long they need to first invent the road on which they can walk for ever.
Running a government is not as easy as running Rajdhani Express on a dedicated fast track. It is more like a fifty coach “Samjhouta” Express running on a brick road instead of a track, chances of derailment is very high if there is no proper coordination. The question is can Ms. Banerjee keep his flock together when they taste blood in their hands. A tiger that just had a gazelle for lunch is much safer to the public than the one who has been starved for ages; Madhu Koda is a glaring example of that.
The crisis or we can say the pending crisis in Bengal proves a critical point that the people need to be more assertive in choosing their local representatives. They need to involve more in their political thinking rather than counting money and first of all they need to vote. If our perception of politics is mentally challenged then we land up with fascist regimes like the Left Front for thirty years. The opposition loses its bite, sitting in the opposition for so long and when the time comes to prove their mettle they are sometimes clueless. Maharashtra is going in the same direction as West Bengal with no credible opposition in sight people have to settle for the lesser evil.
Smart News: A senior journalist had referred the Bhatt’s as a “dysfunctional” family. I call this real, true journalism.
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