During the 34 years of Left rule in West Bengal, very few elections had been carried out peacefully. Even the peaceful elections were results of booth captures, rigging, and physical and mental torture on voters. However, the new scenario looks the same.
In the ongoing municipal elections in Kolkata, several incidents of sheer hooliganism is being reported every now and then. Voters are been physically attacked, booths are being vandalised, journalists are being man handled and many more such incidents.
In Baghbazar polling booth after the booth had been vandalised by hooligans, a journalist went up to a Police official to ask about his reactions when the journalist was slapped by the official. It was attempted by him to break the camera but unfortunately he could not succeed in doing so. The Police in West Bengal is directly under the Chief Minister and even after this incident she is quiet.
The ruling party Trinamool Congress is of the opinion that these are all created problems, a mean to tarnish the image of the party. Well what more can be expected from a party whose supremo tags every incident as a "shajano ghotona" (wrongly framed) even before the investigations are over.
Probably the turnout of events in several polling booths in West Bengal are "chotto ghotona"s (small incidents) and probably it is true that the opposition parties are trying to tarnish the image of the ruling Trinamool Congress but did the Chief Minister not know that such incidents can take place? Why were enough security forces not deployed to ensure a true peaceful election?
In Panchashayar, a polling booth in Kolkata near the New Garia Metro Station it was reported that the booth had been completely captured and voters were being asked to come after 2 p.m. Even when journalists went to report the incident they were not been allowed to enter the booth and the same was told to them as well.
I do not wish to point my finger at anybody but the Trinamool Congress says that the same things had been done during the erstwhile Left rule. So is this a revenge? The people of West Bengal were made to believe that the scenario after the historic end of the Left rule would completely change as there dawned upon West Bengal a "poriborton" (change). However, the change seems only that of the political party now carrying on or too incapable of handling the terror.
Well it is true that the Left had been a terror and gruesome incidents such as the Lalbari incident had taken place. For people who do not know, in Lalbari a youth was allegedly murdered by Left leaders in front of his mother and the mother was allegedly made to eat rice which was mixed in the youth's blood. It is true that several human skeletons had been excavated after the Trinamool Congress came to power and the finger of suspicion was pointed towards CPIM (Communist Party of India Marxist), but that certainly does not mean that the same will be done even today. After all, the Trinamool Congress after coming to power had said "bodla noy, bodol chai.." (not revenge, but change), but the same is completely absent from the face of West Bengal election scenario.
What was the scenario then, is the same today with the only change being the name of the political party. The people of West Bengal had chosen Trinamool Congress to power since they had expected a stop to the extreme hooliganism during the Left rule. Unfortunately, hooliganism seems to be the turncoat which simply shifted sides after the Left rule came to an end.
In the ongoing municipal elections in Kolkata, several incidents of sheer hooliganism is being reported every now and then. Voters are been physically attacked, booths are being vandalised, journalists are being man handled and many more such incidents.
In Baghbazar polling booth after the booth had been vandalised by hooligans, a journalist went up to a Police official to ask about his reactions when the journalist was slapped by the official. It was attempted by him to break the camera but unfortunately he could not succeed in doing so. The Police in West Bengal is directly under the Chief Minister and even after this incident she is quiet.
The ruling party Trinamool Congress is of the opinion that these are all created problems, a mean to tarnish the image of the party. Well what more can be expected from a party whose supremo tags every incident as a "shajano ghotona" (wrongly framed) even before the investigations are over.
Probably the turnout of events in several polling booths in West Bengal are "chotto ghotona"s (small incidents) and probably it is true that the opposition parties are trying to tarnish the image of the ruling Trinamool Congress but did the Chief Minister not know that such incidents can take place? Why were enough security forces not deployed to ensure a true peaceful election?
In Panchashayar, a polling booth in Kolkata near the New Garia Metro Station it was reported that the booth had been completely captured and voters were being asked to come after 2 p.m. Even when journalists went to report the incident they were not been allowed to enter the booth and the same was told to them as well.
I do not wish to point my finger at anybody but the Trinamool Congress says that the same things had been done during the erstwhile Left rule. So is this a revenge? The people of West Bengal were made to believe that the scenario after the historic end of the Left rule would completely change as there dawned upon West Bengal a "poriborton" (change). However, the change seems only that of the political party now carrying on or too incapable of handling the terror.
Well it is true that the Left had been a terror and gruesome incidents such as the Lalbari incident had taken place. For people who do not know, in Lalbari a youth was allegedly murdered by Left leaders in front of his mother and the mother was allegedly made to eat rice which was mixed in the youth's blood. It is true that several human skeletons had been excavated after the Trinamool Congress came to power and the finger of suspicion was pointed towards CPIM (Communist Party of India Marxist), but that certainly does not mean that the same will be done even today. After all, the Trinamool Congress after coming to power had said "bodla noy, bodol chai.." (not revenge, but change), but the same is completely absent from the face of West Bengal election scenario.
What was the scenario then, is the same today with the only change being the name of the political party. The people of West Bengal had chosen Trinamool Congress to power since they had expected a stop to the extreme hooliganism during the Left rule. Unfortunately, hooliganism seems to be the turncoat which simply shifted sides after the Left rule came to an end.
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