History repeats – Preparing for the Impending
Storm
My dear Bengalis and respected ‘Bangla’ – Banga Bhoomi.
I am writing this letter not as Prime Minister of
India but rather more as a concerned citizen – who has lately seen Bengal
politics from a much closer range. This election in West Bengal has seen
violence unleashed by Trinamool Congress goons.
Do not laugh and dismiss my letter. It is
ironical that for decades, Mamata Banerjee herself fought against Leftists
politics of electoral violence and today her party workers have done the same.
As much they change, as much they remain the same – rightly goes the saying.
To many, this letter could appear strange, but then as for my critics – a substantial of them from West Bengal – I have been a strange politician.
For years, people’s complaint against the
Communists have been that by pretending to be ‘champions of the poor’ – the
Marxists have played the role of crony capitalists and promoted land mafia and
‘promoters’.
People suffered; but due to ‘fear’ they kept on
voting in favour of the Leftists. There was rigging also and thus Jyoti Basu ruled for decades.
Unfortunately today, the Trinamool regime has
turned more ‘communists than the Left’ on two fronts – minority appeasement and
also promoting and implementing in full the ‘syndicate’ raj. The ‘tollabaji’ –
I mentioned about these in election campaigning also.
I have said during last one month of election
campaign that – “After suffering Congress, Communists and Trinamool misrule.
Bengal is looking towards BJP with great hope. I assure them – we won’t let
Bengal down”.
Some years back, when Ratan Tata was shunted out
of West Bengal and was forced to shut the Nano project, I had welcomed him in
Gujarat. That is certainly a different story.
The other part of the story and what is important
in today’s context is that the communists’ regime under Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
had played a duplicity game and did try to help Indonesia’s Salim Group and
also Tatas.
In fact, closer scrutiny revealed that the Marxists
had gone out of their way to ‘bend’ rules and allow these two houses operate in
Nandigram and Singur.
Didi fought the Leftists – sometime the right way (that is correct!) but also took help of some elements she should have avoided.In the end of course she won 19 Lok Sabha MPs from Bengal in 2009 and finally ousted the communists from Writer’s Building in 2011.I will not hesitate to say that Mamata Banerjee started seeing big dreams and focused less on works. She was already in the grip of syndicate and Sharada Chit fund scam. Then came in her weakness for Bhatija !
Kya Karen !! Delhi abhi duur hae !
Therefore, I will not hesitate to tell that the credibility of her government was seriously ‘eroded’ as she deviated from the path of good governance – a point I try to always stress on.
In her desperation to fight me, she started the game of hate – a real dangerous sports in politics. In the process, she indulged in open carelessness and her party started encouraging Bangladeshi infiltrators. Didi started hating Hindus and Hindu culture resulting in people getting worried whether they could still celebrate Durga Puja.The words ‘Ram Dhanu’ and ‘Krishna Kali’ started irritating her. Urdu became her preferred language and our Didi almost turned into ‘aapa’.
The mix of political appeasement towards minorities, corruption and promotion of goondaism has yielded her temporary benefits. But once the Bengali voters could see through her machinations, they knew what to do. An overwhelming of them have turned towards the BJP. This unnerved Didi further and she started doing more mistakes and helping more consolidation in favour of my party.
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It is said – not without good reason that – the big themes of history are written by the victors. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee wrote ‘her story’ and certainly she deserved all credit for that.
She flattered herself to believe that having ousted the Leftists after 34 years, she was there for next three decades. Her acolytes encouraged her to nurture ambitions. I do not mind that, but the roadmap she chose to achieve her goal was not the path a public leader should undertake.
People in this era judge public figures by everything we do and we do not do! This is an era when youngsters would dismiss Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s masterpiece ‘Devdas’ as the story of a loser!
In the ultimate, what matters is performance and sincerity.
Finally, I bow down before the people of West Bengal.
The elections this year should serve as a reminder of what faceless common people can achieve – the real Parivartan ! – when these faceless voters are courageous and united towards achieving their target.
When history will be written about West Bengal of 2019 – well the scholars can easily start by saying – once upon a time people gave up their fears.
Sincerely - Narendra Modi
(Disclaimer - This blog is being written with a peculiar intent. Hence the entire work is imaginative and also sarcastic. It is even out of tune with modern times.
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