Was It Obvious?

Why TMC Got the Verdict?

Samar Bagchi

 

BJP has been crushed in the West Bengal election. According to my own assessment, the following are the reasons for the astounding victory of Trinamul Congress (TMC):    

1) Developmental Initiatives:

a) Good development work has been undertaken by TMC in the rural and urban areas, especially in the rural, during the last 10 years that Left Front had not done in 34 years except during the first few years with Barga settlement; 

b) Major facilities created for women and girl students;

c) Regular monitoring by CM herself of the progress of planned project works of the districts by holding meetings with the district officers and state government secretaries in the meetings held in the districts;

d) The humane face of Mamata Banerjee. These works were done inspite of large corruption at different levels.

2) The large support of the Muslim population to TMC:

a) Because of its continued opposition to NRC and CAA and giving assurance to those who have migrated before 1971;

b) TMC's support to the Muslims against the virulent anti- Muslim tirade and organizing riots and killing of Muslims in the name of Love Jehad, cow slaughter etc. by the BJP goons.

3) Attack on Bengali women's dignity by Narendra Modi with slogans like 'Didi oh Didi' and many such insults to the women of Bengal by BJP functionaries.

4) Utter mishandling of Covid situation right from the beginning of Maŕch last year causing inhuman miseries to the migrant population and especially this year after the second wave of Covid. 

It is sad that the Left and the Congress have been wiped out in this election and there will be no opposition against TMC in the assembly except the poisonous BJP. It is because of their political immaturity to identify the main contradiction in the society, that is the Sangha Parivar. CPM leadership in West Bengal could never accept their defeat of their 34-year rule in the hands of an ordinary woman of Mamata Banerjee's stature about whom a famous late Marxist economist once said 'Bastibasi' (slum-dweller). Rather, CPI(ML)-Liberation and SUCI (Communist ) took an anti-BJP stance correctly. 

I have been impressing upon the National Alliance for Peoples' Movement (NAPM) leadership for quite some time past that NAPM should present before the nation its alternative paradigm of development as Congress Party had submitted before the nation in 1938. NAPM should also take a constructive stand both of unity and struggle in relation to TMC in their upcoming 5 years rule.