Few questions must be pondered about in the beginning. Who are more politically sensitive and sound - Nagas or Bengalis ? Who are more politically courageous and decisive - Bengalis or Nagas ?
The best way to handle these questions will be to leave them to be explored, answered and analysed to each individual reader of this blog piece. The politics in both the states are different. But all politics have a unifying factor - that is the Struggle for Power Politics in the corridors of power. There was another common denominator.
It's the Fed Up angle.
In Bangla we say - 'anek hoechhey'. It's enough. Nagamese will be enchantingly romantic "hoise ho". A group of Naga youths have floated a fledgling organisation called Fed Up. This has provoked may quarters in Nagaland and as expected; this has generated enough curiosity factor in New Delhi.
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Talking about West Bengal, M J Akbar, former editor and ex-Minister in the Modi Govt, said in interview:
"No body gets Fed Up fast....nobody gets fed up of any relationship fast including the political relationship".
In that case, for Nagas too, the 'hoisey ho' element is there.
Akbar explains further -
"The cumulative effect of experiences certainly leads to critical mass... Accumulation of small things. If I have to chose a central reason why there is a great dissatisfaction, it would be corruption.
"And it will be corruption not at the level of taking money from the rich. It will be corruption for taking money from the poor", Akbar said.
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Like in West Bengal or in Nagaland and elsewhere ; corruption has no religion or creed. If Hindus were victims in Mamata's Bengal. Muslims were no exception to the corruption menace. The same logic applies to people in Nagaland also.
Men, women, Nagas and non-Nagas have been victims of corruption and direct and indirect victims of Extortion. Only thing that matters is - if people are really disgusted they must show their disapproval on the polling day. But one notable thing about electoral malpractice in Nagaland is that the voters are 'honest' about one thing.
On the D Day - they return the favour to the richest politician. Obviously, the Bolero club thrives. So, 'as you sow; so shall you reap' works.
These theories worked in Bengal also. But there was an Amit Shah in action and his party 'with a difference'. The same saffron outfit outright has a different notion about life and election as a sport in Nagaland. One can credit it to a plain manu called Ram Madhav for the 2018 disservice of a very long term he did to Naga people.
In the 1990s. Sushilkumar Shinde did play his part.
But as Netas they played their politics. Who says, politics is not harmful ?
But the answer does not lie in lamenting over the spilled milk. One has to get the act together with or without Amit Shah and then work out the salvation route. In democracy, the best route is election.
In 2011, the then Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya had lost. In 2026, the voters of Bhabanipur have made life miserable for the Bengal 'tigress'.
She was humbled on wheel chair (drama) in Nandigram in 2021.
One can easily ask-- who will be Amit Shah and perhaps more importantly who will be Suvendu Adhikari in Nagaland?
Had my very dear and 'most favourite Indian chief minister' contested from Dimapur - 1; I would have offered myself to take on him. I cannot contest in Northern Angami - 2. until the Constitution is changed.
And as they - Flag and Constitution are 'sacred'.
Of course, my favourite chief minister will certainly provide me one full day Bolero ride from Dimapur railway station !!
Jokes apart.
The moot point here is such leaders can emerge easily from the society itself.
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As it is the Modi Govt is on move.
In closed-door meetings, top government officials have already said that insurgency and drug smuggling trade in the North East should end. The 2029 deadline has been mentioned a few times.
Between us, the calendar year 2028 comes before 2029. Neiphiu Rio and his 59 Club also know this.
Many mine-protected vehicles, along with bulletproof cars that forces have in the former Naxal-hit states, will come to the North East. .....
Those who do not believe, ask Mamata supporters how do armoured vehicles look.
Well, Sa Re Ga Ma .... time for some people to sing !!
"Sa Re Ga Ma" represents the first four of the seven essential notes (swaras) in Indian classical music.
'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' is also an Indian Hindi-language reality singing television show.
It started airing on Zee TV in 1995 and is the oldest running game show in India.
I need not write more.
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