Assembly election 2011 for West Bengal is over today. Voters of this most populous democracy have done a get job with percentage of voting going above distinction marks.
Will the Paribortan (change) come in West Bengal after more than three decades? Will the high voters lining up the election booths go in favour of leftists or as claimed by it will for Trinamool? Will the expert in psephology such as Pranay Ray and many who have predicted the change in favour of Mamtaa prove themselves right? And if the paribortan comes in the masters of Writers Building (the seat of the state’s power) will it change from red to green?
But the biggest of the doubt with change is about the security and safety of the common people particularly in rural Bengal. What will the people mentioned in the stories below will get and how will they behave?
Trinamul supporter Sheikh Hasrat Ali, 37, had both hands chopped off by CPM cadres on December 2, 1999, for protesting the party’s “interference in every detail of villagers’ lives” in West Midnapore’s Keshpur.
Badal Kumar Mondal, the 55-year-old CPM supporter in Nartha village of Pingla, West Midnapore provides his story. The schoolteacher’s eyes were gouged out and acid was poured in the socket by suspected Trinamul supporters on May 27, 1998, on the eve of the panchayat polls.
Will the cadre of Mamtaa’s party take revenge if not with physical tortures of the members of left parties with grabbing all the sanction benefits to its own members and to the aam aadami without any partisan?
I wish there is peace all around and Bengal works one single point agenda of getting back its past glory.
Will Mamta go in fast gear for development politics taking advantages of a favourable allied party ruling the country?
Many still doubt a Mamta’s win and what even its ally wishes. What will be Mamta’s next step if she doesn’t win? How the cadres of leftist parties react if left loses? Will the left leaders behave as mature enough democrats and able to control them?
Perhaps India and those interested in Bengal’s politics will have to wait till noon on May 13.
May 13 will certainly be an exciting day, perhaps lucky for some and really inauspicious for some.
PS: May13, 2011 at 11.45AM; The result rather gives a clear win for Mamta and Jailalita in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively. Mamta has made history uprooting leftists after its 34 years if rule. Let me hope a Mamta leads Bengal with developments-based politics. Can after the five years in power she will keep herself equally darling to the people of Bengal to re-elect her?