Sorry West Bengal But Wait
Posted : January 16, 2012 at 5:55 pm [IST]
With passing days I am getting more and more morose about West Bengal, the state where I grew and worked for the whole life. With Mamta I and many like me had thought of a change coming to West Bengal and for its people and the return of the state’s glorious past. The quick actions for changing Presidency College to Presidency University, the inclusion of Amit Mitra as finance minister, the Industrialists meet were all good news. In leftist rule, the healthcare and education institutions hardly made any significant progress to remain competitive with those in the other part of the country. I thought Mamta would go whole hog on the real issues.
However, as it appears Mamta will continue ruling the state almost as the CPM did through her cadre. Recent physical attacks on the principals of the colleges and the gheraos of the managers of the factory can only be reminiscent of tactics leftists’ era. As reported, ‘a Trinamul Congress-backed union today held up work at the Mitsubishi plant in Haldia and gheraoed over 120 managers, including 40 Japanese nationals.’
The very same people including many intellectuals, who wished Mamta to win WB and liberate it from the leftists’ menace, are disillusioned.
Many among Kolkata’s Marwaris, who dominate industry and commerce in the eastern metropolis, are feeling threatened and discriminated against after the arrests of directors of AMRI. Surprisingly,’only the Marwari directors of the hospital were arrested and the Bengali ones allowed to remain at large.’
Trinamul Congress is nothing but Mamta’s personal fiefdom and remains one person party. She hardly believes in any internal democracy. As it appears all her moves and actions till date has been showing her one-point programme to remain populist to win all elections of all levels.
I don’t know if one can compare her with other two her counterparts in UP and Tamil Nadu. She is certainly honest unlike the other two. Mamta proves herself equally unreliable alliance partner as Mayawati and Jayalalita. Mamta follows almost the similar views on issues of reform for the national economy, be it for FDI for MNCs or pension-related policies.
However, the people of West Bengal wish to see her focus aggressively on the development works related to providing them better education, healthcare and employment. She will have to improve the basic infrastructure facilities roads, irrigation and electricity throughout the whole of West Bengal, particularly in rural areas.
Mamta will have to simultaneously facilitate some eye-catching projects through the industrialists of the country. She has all the right to keep their wrongs under control but can’t work as Leftists did by following blindly whatever their union leaders advised them.
People will also like her to delegate her work to some reliable and efficient party men giving freedom and credit for implementing effectively the projects. Mamta must consider herself honoured to rule over a state that is full with wonderfully experts in various fields, intellectuals, skilled manpower and artisans and craftsmen. It is for Mamta how she uses them for making West Bengal a Sonar Bangla.
I know how to judge if something significant happens in West Bengal. We in Noida will see the slowing or drying off of the arrival of the huge number of poor women and men from West Bengal arriving daily in NCR for jobs as rikshapullers or maidservants, as it happened with the similar incidents from Bihar.
I wish Mamta undergoes a mind change. She becomes a little humbler and rational. And she succeeds to fulfill the aspirations of the poor people of West Bengal. Many in West Bengal and outside are worried about the way Mamta has acted till date after winning the power.
- Indra
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