Soumya Bandopadhyay says the civic polls will decide the course of the 2011 Assembly polls in West Bengal
Thank God! The alliance is no more! Otherwise the election to 81 civic bodies including Kolkata and Salt Lake would have turned colourless. There is a general ‘Feel Good’ wind doing the Left Front’s corridors. But whether a division of opposition votes really translate in the Left Front’s victory is a million dollar question. It will also answer whether this division is the only factor which has enabled the Left to be in power for nearly 33 years. Perhaps, it’s an opportunity for Mamata Banerjee and her party to negate this myth. This is the biggest attraction of these civic polls.
For Alimuddin Street satraps, who have forgotten class struggle and have turned arrogant, flamboyant and patronising towards party cadres, combating the stormy political weather of change, which started since the Singur-Nandigram days, was impossible. The Trinamool onslaught in south Bengal left the Left at its defensive best in the last three and a-half decades. The ever-growing blind and unquestionable mass support to Mamata had another truth to it. The masses were mainly demanding the ‘end of CPM rule’.
As people of different colours and creed have joined that stream, the Congress leadership too, acknowledging people’s wishes, got their state leadership to join that force. Whenever elections were held in the post-Singur-Nandigram period, the state Congress leadership had to obey the dictum of its high command — be it Panchayat election or by-polls to Bishnupur (West), Bowbazar or Sealdah or the Lok Sabha election. But, now the flute is playing a different tune. And the Trinamool, Pradesh Congress and the Congress high command, all have been conductors in this grand orchestra.
The question is, despite honouring all the demands of Mamata Banerjee till date, why did Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not force the state leadership to listen to the Trinamool supremo?
Thank God! The alliance is no more! Otherwise the election to 81 civic bodies including Kolkata and Salt Lake would have turned colourless. There is a general ‘Feel Good’ wind doing the Left Front’s corridors. But whether a division of opposition votes really translate in the Left Front’s victory is a million dollar question. It will also answer whether this division is the only factor which has enabled the Left to be in power for nearly 33 years. Perhaps, it’s an opportunity for Mamata Banerjee and her party to negate this myth. This is the biggest attraction of these civic polls.
For Alimuddin Street satraps, who have forgotten class struggle and have turned arrogant, flamboyant and patronising towards party cadres, combating the stormy political weather of change, which started since the Singur-Nandigram days, was impossible. The Trinamool onslaught in south Bengal left the Left at its defensive best in the last three and a-half decades. The ever-growing blind and unquestionable mass support to Mamata had another truth to it. The masses were mainly demanding the ‘end of CPM rule’.
As people of different colours and creed have joined that stream, the Congress leadership too, acknowledging people’s wishes, got their state leadership to join that force. Whenever elections were held in the post-Singur-Nandigram period, the state Congress leadership had to obey the dictum of its high command — be it Panchayat election or by-polls to Bishnupur (West), Bowbazar or Sealdah or the Lok Sabha election. But, now the flute is playing a different tune. And the Trinamool, Pradesh Congress and the Congress high command, all have been conductors in this grand orchestra.
The question is, despite honouring all the demands of Mamata Banerjee till date, why did Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not force the state leadership to listen to the Trinamool supremo?
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