Does anyone have an answer? I am seriously looking for one, as I am pissed off reading and viewing on TV the horrendous pictures of political clashes every now and then in Bengal.
In the name of peaceful protests for price rise and such other issues affecting common man, the political parties are becoming violent in fighting with the police in public. In today’s Telegraph, there is an article with a picture of a policeman and furious mob throwing stones at each other. A policeman with a stone! What more can you want.
When a Kolkata city leader of an all-India political party (that held the rally yesterday) was asked by a reporter as to why there was a chaos, when they promised to move peacefully? He only praised his party men for gathering such a strong crowd compared to that of last year, and smiled generously as if nothing has happened or he at least knows nothing of that sort.
So, this is the real picture of Bengal politics. Whom to blame, when every party is ready to throw dirt at each other!
Another naked truth of Bengal politics – the parties call bandhs or rallies almost every month to protest government moves and act as people’s spokesmen. But have they ever asked what the people of Bengal want? Do they really want bandhs or meetings in the peak office hours or in week days? Nobody is bothered to ask any such questions, and rather might thrash me for asking one.
The thing is who cares what we want. We are like guinea pigs in the hands of various Indian political parties. They call bandhs, carry on agitations in the busy hours of the day, takeout processions, and make people wait for long hours to reach home, or take patient to a hospital. Common men have become used to it, and its no use thinking otherwise.
Bengal will soon witness a state election next year, with chances of a new political party coming to power. But, will there be any chance of Bengal rising from petty political shambles, promising a better tomorrow? Well, let’s just wait n watch.
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