From The Other Side

“I have dealt with many Opposition leaders but never faced such a leader like her who speaks blatant lies.” “Starting from Stephen Court fire to Jnaneswari train accident, Sainthia accident to Metro rail derailment; on every occasion she blamed the CPM for engineering this. This is absolutely absurd. What else do I call her except a liar,”-Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. W est Bengal, as I know it, is one of the most politically active states of India. Then, how are we tolerating this dance of nonsense theatrics of a directionless party which is constantly feeding us with lies? Let’s try to find some answers. The people are the most important element in a democracy. Hence, if you have the support of the people, you have the power. But, the support that the parties (fighting to govern the democracy) get must be spontaneous. Spontaneous support can be generated by two methods- 1) REAL DEVELOPMENT IN EVERY ASPECT OF THE LIVELIHOOD OF THE PEOPLE 2) FEEDING THE PEOPLE WITH ST...

Recently, the much-awaited verdict on Suchpur Incident(July, 2000) have been given convicting 44 CPI(M) workers, much to the delight of Trinomool Congress. Lets look further into it…….. The opposition has been saying that 11 landless farmers, who were also Trinomool Congress Supporters, were brutally hacked to death by CPI(M) ‘gundas’. The CPI(M) has been saying that The people killed are nothing but Hired ‘gundas’ of the Jotdar whose 111 acre of land was turned into ‘Khas Jomi’ and were distributed among landless farmers. The verdict, however, seems to support the opposition’s view. But, like several times in the past, a given verdict completely changes when the judge, jury and court changes (Of course, I am referring to Suhreed Dutta case and Chhoto Aangaria case). So, we should wait till it’s finally over. Politics, in its Bengali meaning, involves the word, ‘neeti’, which can be translated back to the English word, Strategy. Violence becomes a part of politics if it is used...

In the beginning, I would like to make it clear that I don’t consider myself a Communist. I cannot be a Communist until I know what being a Communist means, and I can’t say that I know it. First of all, I am a supporter of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). But, why? I spent my childhood and early teenage in a place called Kandi in Murshidabad District, which was, at that time, an out and out Congress dominated district. When I was in 8 th standard, I started to take interest in the political situation of the town as we used to be in company of Chhatra Parishad(CP) leaders all the time. Student Politics, at that time, was dominated, mainly physically, by CP boys. There was virtually no existence of SFI in the colleges. The supporters of SFI were more keen to save themselves during elections rather that publicizing their candidates. There was a small office of SFI at the end of small “gully” which was inhabited only by mosquitoes and flies. But, there was this young man, h...