Comrades!
I understand that the greatest achievement of Red parties being in power for 34 years in West Bengal was to upgrade the living standards of the people belonging to financially lower and lower middle class. I am a great supporter of the Operation Barga. I do believe that one incident changed the livelihood of the poor in our state in a big way. But the people belonging to financially middle and upper middle class were the greatest losers in the Red era. Until the beginning of the 90s, this class have left the state in massive numbers. We have seen factory owners, factories in and around Calcutta being 'gherao'ed on a regular basis. We have seen the government sponsored strikes in the state (i.e. extra holidays in the calendar :P). We were frustrated on you, there was no formidable opposition in the state and that's the reason you had ruled the state for record number of years. Then there was new industrial policy of the state government to invite private sector investors and then there was Buddhadeb Bhattacharya. We had felt definite hope about the rejuvenation of industrialization in the state. Now you have lost power because of a massive negative publicity, bad media management and definitely some soft stands on the administration's part against Principle Opposition Party mainly in Singur and Nandigram. Also, the allegation of atrocities on the peasants in Nandigram played a huge role in dethroning the Red parties from power after 34 years.
At present we have a government in the state who do not seem to have a very clear vision on anything imaginable. Forget about industrialization and financial growth of West Bengal. In little more than 18 months of the new regime we have already seen the people who had voted for the change, have felt betrayed by the new government on several matters. There have been serious issues against the government in these months e.g. human rights violation (The Jadavpur University Professor incident), being callous about citizens' safety (Park Street and lots of other incidents of violence against women) and etcetra etcetra. We do not know if there have been any major investment or any hope of such investment in the near future in the state at all.
So the stage seems to be bright for the Red parties again. But what the rubbish is this two days all India strike huh? I strongly believe that Mr. Bhattacharya does not approve the strike politics of his party. Every sane person in this country knows that a damn strike cannot solve any damn problem of the country apart from letting people have a free holiday. I still believe that Left party leaders are some of the best speakers among parliamentarians. So, raise your voices in Parliament about the issues you are letting people have free holidays in the name of strike (believe me dudes, I am a fan of your strikes because I do get a work-free day :P). There are hell lot of forums available in the system, learn to use them, hire media managers and speak your concerns out to the media. People have long been failed to understand if the strikes have anything to do with any of the so called issues the strikes are called for. You say, you care about the poorests and they are the ones you call the strikes for. You really want us to believe that the mango people even know about the so called issues? Lot of the issues you 'want' to raise by such strikes are relevant - I do agree. But why strike? What's that going to do? Did any of the strikes in the past do any good to anyone in this country? Please wake up dudes! If you do not come out of your 'strike' politics I think your party is going to be obsolete in the coming 10 years to the max.
Cheers!!
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