SEEKING THE LIMELIGHT TO STAY OBLIVION

SEEKING THE LIMELIGHT TO STAY OBLIVION

Mamata Bannerjee is seeking the limelight somehow to stay in the public imagination for the 2029 Lok Sabha Election and 2031 Vidhan Sabha Election. This is adroit advertising strategy at a time of total debacle. She is a shrewd contriver, an old masterly hand at politics who is struggling at all ends but will not give up, street fighter ultimate that she is. It is best for the BJP to ignore her and not give her undue publicity. At any rate she still holds over 40% of the electorate backing her and hopes to turn the tables on the BJP next time around, forming convenient and inconvenient alliances if need be. In 2021 she had been voted to power with a mandate even bigger than what the BJP has secured this time. Yet, sheer punlic anger on all counts coming from every sphere of the polity voted her out of power. If the corruption charges against her government are conclusively proved in the law courts, her return to power will be impossible. As of now the West Bengal Government is moving rapidly to unearthing them and after due investigation prosecuting the culprits. Where all this leads to is anybody's guess. But diehard politician that she is, the ex-CM is plotting ways and means to stay in the limelight. If the media go against her and the providers for her party show their back, she will inevitably suffer political oblivion for good, a fate that has seemingly befallen the CPI(M), a fate that she desperately is trying to avert. Let us wait and watch the unfolding drama for there is ample scope for such as the long arm of law reaches every nook and cranny of her erstwhile corrupt ruling dispensation. 🕉 Hindu!

Written by Sugata Bose