It is recalled that ever
since she had assumed office, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Banerjee has
been totally insensitive and indifferent as far as the problems confronted by
the people of the state are concerned. Whether it be problem affecting the common man, working class or peasants, her attitude vis-a-vis the same remains same.Interestingly, from the day one she has
been taking CPM who ruled the state for more than 30 years to task for the sad
plight of the common man and toiling masses who have to bear the brunt of
unprecedented increase in the prices of essential commodities and other issues.
Instead of fulfilling the promise of ‘Paribarthan’, she has been taking the
people of the state for ride for the last 2 years with a view to covering up
her inept handling of the issues that affect common man. Consequently, people
are getting disenchanted with her day by day.
Initially, Mamatha had
blamed CPM for the man-made Gnaneshwari train accident that had occurred in
Midnapore District wherein 141 passengers were killed concealing the real fact
that the same was caused by sabotage of Naxalites.Subsequently, a number of
rapes of woman had taken place in different parts of the state. Whenever the
incident of rape had come to light and the victim had lodged complaint, she was
found to be insensitive to the issue denying
the allegation that rape had taken place and was habituated to blame it
on CPM’s conspiracy to malign her and her government. It was ironical that she
has been doing so even before ordering an enquiry and getting the report of the
same. Honest police officers who had disclosed that it was a fact that rape had
taken place had fallen prey to her ire resulting in disciplinary action,either transfer or suspension.
As can be observed from
the situation prevailing n West Bengal right now, the law and order situation
has got deteriorated wherein rapes and molestation of women including minor girls, attacks on
CPM cadres and leaders and brutal murders have become the order of the day. As per the latest estimates, the number of
supporters of Left Front mainly belonging to CPM has already crossed the 100
mark which includes 31 persons from minority community, 3 from Adivasis and 2
women. In this context it needs special mention here that those killed by
Trinamool goons include many leaders of CPM and CITU from different districts.
Incidentally, hardly a fortnight has gone by since the veteran CPM leader and
ex-MLA from Baraboni Com.Dilip Sarkar was brutally assassinated by Trainamool
goons in broad day light. That is to say, Com.Sarkar was on his morning walk
and was attacked by two bike-borne goons- one man and one woman – and he has
met with an instantaneous death.
Another issue on which
the government was on the mat was Sharda Chit Fund scandal in which hundreds of
common people have lost their hard earned life savings. Naturally this has led
to a lot of discontentment amongst the people of the state resulting in
suicides of a number of investors. Subsequent disclosures regarding involvement
of many senior Trinamool Congress leaders with the owner of the chit fund has
caused irreparable damage to the Government’s image.
Understandably, the
disenchantment of the people of West Bengal towards Mamatha’s Government was
reflected in the by-elections held recently which was pointer to the fact that
popularity of Mamatha is on the wane. It is recalled that so-called
intellectuals including literateur Maheswatha Devi who were voiciferous
supporters of Mamatha Banerjee are nowhere to be seen now. Interestingly, they
have become silent spectators to her misrule.
Now Mamatha Banerjee is
again at her old game of trading baseless and malicious charges against CPM.
This time she is alleging that CPM has aligned with Naxalites in the state to
assassinate her. To say the least, it is nothng but a ploy to escape from the
ever increasing discontentment of the people of West Bengal. Understandably,
there are no takers for this new theory of Mamatha. It hardly needs any
emphasis that anyone who is sane and who has got common sense will not trust
such a malicious allegation about CPM’s aligning with the Naxalites. If she is
under the notion that she can rule the state by blaming CPM every time for
everything to cover up her ineptness and lack of vision, she is living in
fool’s paradise. It reminds me of a saying “you can fool some people for
sometime; you can fool some the people for all the time, but you cannot fool
all the people for all the time” which
equally applies to Mamatha.
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