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| DR. MALAY CHAUDHURI, CHIEF CONSULTING EDITOR, THE SUNDAY INDIAN |
While reflecting on a Star Ananda programme that featured Mamata Banerjee amongst creative artists and intellectuals from different fields on the occasion of 'Vijaya Sammelani', it struck me to note that there is no other known politician in the whole country who finds pleasure in meeting creative artists and intellectuals, and discussing with them the current problems of policy issues and the ways to find solutions to them. It's incredible that despite her busy schedule, she meets intellectuals and creative artists almost regularly, and not just for a one-off photo opportunity. It is clear that she sincerely enjoys meeting them and discussing with them the problems of West Bengal.
This is something really worth thinking and pondering upon. Is there any other known politician in India who meets intellectuals and creative artists – the most sensitised of people – to discuss the direction of the socioeconomic change needed? In contrast, our dynastic democrats enjoy meeting dreaded criminals secretly, even openly, and are not ashamed to nominate them as candidates for electoral posts and induct them as ministers. Intellectuals around Mamata Banerjee are not only top experts in their respective fields, but they are excellent human beings. They are around her not because of the possibility to share power in the post election scenario – indeed, many of them have openly and publicly declared that they will not accept any political position in the government – but because they are committed to the people of West Bengal who suffered during the misrule of the corrupt Congress government for 30 years and then for another 33 years under the regional rural variety of Stalinist regimes.
This is something really worth thinking and pondering upon. Is there any other known politician in India who meets intellectuals and creative artists – the most sensitised of people – to discuss the direction of the socioeconomic change needed? In contrast, our dynastic democrats enjoy meeting dreaded criminals secretly, even openly, and are not ashamed to nominate them as candidates for electoral posts and induct them as ministers. Intellectuals around Mamata Banerjee are not only top experts in their respective fields, but they are excellent human beings. They are around her not because of the possibility to share power in the post election scenario – indeed, many of them have openly and publicly declared that they will not accept any political position in the government – but because they are committed to the people of West Bengal who suffered during the misrule of the corrupt Congress government for 30 years and then for another 33 years under the regional rural variety of Stalinist regimes.
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Out here, it's worth mentioning that Jyoti Basu created history of sorts by demonstrating how a state level administration under an otherwise democratic Constitution at the Central level can be transformed into a dictatorial party rule by systematically rigging elections held every five years with the held of a unionised and most corrupt police force. Thus, dictatorship and party rule prevailed in West Bengal without the help of the army as well! In fact, Jyoti Basu is also famous for ushering in a state administration without any financial accountability! He openly denied the right of the Centre to ask for proper accounts for the money handed over to the state for implementing Centrally sponsored projects! He propounded the theory that since people of West Bengal contributed to the central kitty, which was the source of the fund handed over to the West Bengal government, the state government did not need to submit reports to the Centre on utilisation of the fund supplied by the Centre. In the process, state
budgets as well as Central funds were mismanaged and literally looted by the Left front parties to enrich themselves. The dynastic democrats of the Centre, of course, collaborated with the regional CPM Stalinists because they required numbers in the Parliament to continue their own loot, to promote crony capitalism and to share wealth cornered by the newly created billionaires by the dozens!
Most probably, people of West Bengal were the first to bring communists to power by the ballot way back in 1977. Although Kerala's communists were in power twenty years before in 1957, that was through a sort of caste and communal coalitions under the leadership of communists like Namboodripad and others including non-communists. In West Bengal, people in general were pro-poor under the influence of progressive writers and poets; and they voted consciously to bring into power a regime that they hoped will help the poor masses. And now, after being thoroughly betrayed by the Left front during the last so many years under Jyoti Basu and others, the masses are finding Mamata Banerjee a sincere and proper mass leader, who enjoys the image of being a non-corrupt politician. Her lifestyle – which is almost Gandhian – as a simple warmhearted person has contributed to her popularity immensely.
To electorally fight the self-styled Marxists of the most ferocious and unscrupulous variety who have immense money power (collected throughout the last 33 years) promoting corruption through a nexus of Ps (Promoters-Police-Politicians), Mamata Banerjee is likely to need coloured money and musclemen. But it is also clear, absolutely clear, that her involvement with questionable characters and coloured currency is minimal compared to the dynastic democrats in other states and the Centre. Therefore, the good-hearted and absolutely brilliant intellectuals and creative artists have reasons to be quite optimistic about the "change" she may usher in after coming to political power, when the compulsion to use colourful money and shady musclemen will no longer be there.
I would not deter from stating that she is absolutely superior quality material when seen against all political scamsters, patrons of criminals and corrupt crony entities of all varieties – despite their so-called "inner conscience" and commitment to "aam aadmi" (as per them, to those having income of up to Rs.5 to 10 lakhs) – as per definitions applicable to different states and their place in the corruption and political criminalisation index of parties.
Therefore, my support is not just for Mamata's Chief Ministerial candidature for West Bengal, but in the future even for the Prime Minister's post in the Centre, provided she really builds up a truly democratic party and implements a socio-political-economic programme with clear respect and perspective for the majority at the bottom of the pyramid; and provided she shows the way to reach out to the "suffering India" instead of standing only for the "shining India".
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budgets as well as Central funds were mismanaged and literally looted by the Left front parties to enrich themselves. The dynastic democrats of the Centre, of course, collaborated with the regional CPM Stalinists because they required numbers in the Parliament to continue their own loot, to promote crony capitalism and to share wealth cornered by the newly created billionaires by the dozens!
Most probably, people of West Bengal were the first to bring communists to power by the ballot way back in 1977. Although Kerala's communists were in power twenty years before in 1957, that was through a sort of caste and communal coalitions under the leadership of communists like Namboodripad and others including non-communists. In West Bengal, people in general were pro-poor under the influence of progressive writers and poets; and they voted consciously to bring into power a regime that they hoped will help the poor masses. And now, after being thoroughly betrayed by the Left front during the last so many years under Jyoti Basu and others, the masses are finding Mamata Banerjee a sincere and proper mass leader, who enjoys the image of being a non-corrupt politician. Her lifestyle – which is almost Gandhian – as a simple warmhearted person has contributed to her popularity immensely.
To electorally fight the self-styled Marxists of the most ferocious and unscrupulous variety who have immense money power (collected throughout the last 33 years) promoting corruption through a nexus of Ps (Promoters-Police-Politicians), Mamata Banerjee is likely to need coloured money and musclemen. But it is also clear, absolutely clear, that her involvement with questionable characters and coloured currency is minimal compared to the dynastic democrats in other states and the Centre. Therefore, the good-hearted and absolutely brilliant intellectuals and creative artists have reasons to be quite optimistic about the "change" she may usher in after coming to political power, when the compulsion to use colourful money and shady musclemen will no longer be there.
I would not deter from stating that she is absolutely superior quality material when seen against all political scamsters, patrons of criminals and corrupt crony entities of all varieties – despite their so-called "inner conscience" and commitment to "aam aadmi" (as per them, to those having income of up to Rs.5 to 10 lakhs) – as per definitions applicable to different states and their place in the corruption and political criminalisation index of parties.
Therefore, my support is not just for Mamata's Chief Ministerial candidature for West Bengal, but in the future even for the Prime Minister's post in the Centre, provided she really builds up a truly democratic party and implements a socio-political-economic programme with clear respect and perspective for the majority at the bottom of the pyramid; and provided she shows the way to reach out to the "suffering India" instead of standing only for the "shining India".
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