BENGAL---A COMPLEX HISTORY OF CONFLICTING FORCES ... 2

BENGAL---A COMPLEX HISTORY OF CONFLICTING FORCES ... 2

Her career began with her claim of a fake PhD from a non-existent University of East Georgia and her career ended with her refusal to quit court after being given a love game drubbing, fair and square. That the adhesive of the CM's chair could be so sticky, so strong, almost nuclear-like, had to be seen to be believed because it has been a unique occasion for such an event in post-Independence politics. In between her career was dotted with strange highlights like throwing her resignation paper on the Speaker's face in the Lok Sabha by trespassing into the forbidden D, blocking CM Jyoti Basu's passage to the Writers' Buildings and paralysing traffic by blocking the highway to Singur of Tata fame and folly and the self-styled Bannerjee ban on the prospective automobile industry there, to quote but three instances of her unruly behaviour that should have been taken into account by the intelligent Bengali people when voting her into power in 2011. Besides these there are innumerable instances of her on-stage antics, her histrionics, her inadvertent and deliberate verbal lapses that were comic entertainment to most which suited her agenda well enough. Her mocking the CAA with her unique brand of sloganeering 'kya kya chhi chhi', her 'jato maati tato taka' and the like---for the list goes seemingly endless---made her hit the headlines at will. Now that her sun has sunk and her moon is yet to rise and may never rise after all despite her desert affiliation, it is time to bid her good riddance! Meanwhile, you all must block her way back to the public imagination in much the same way as she had nearly two decades ago blocked the Tatas en route to Singur. Let history pay her back in her own coin. 

But shame on Bengalis who had elected an utterly incompetent, corrupt, power-crazy person and installed her as Chief Minister with her bandwagon wreaking havoc across the state of West Bengal, especially on the Hindus! And a worse shame on those who continue to support this utterly unscrupulous lady despite knowledge of her dubious dealings! 🕉 Hindu!

Written by Sugata Bose