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In order to enlarge and consolidate her minority vote-bank, Mamata Banerjee has only continued to build on the Left’s accretion of decades, with some of her party men actively encouraging and sheltering jihadi elements that walked over from Bangladesh.
There was always something highly unstable in the persona of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. But that maverick and irrational streak was, till the other day, overlooked largely because of her intense and uncompromising anti-Communist credentials and her personal incorruptibility. Even during the nadir of her anti-Left politics, when little compromises of all sorts would have allowed Mamata to continue to maintain her anti-Left façade and yet remain protected and sheltered politically and in terms of resources, she refused to capitulate and maintain her personal frugality and Spartan ways continued to champion anti-Left politics in West Bengal till the red citadel crumbled in the summer of 2011.
Many, in fact perhaps most among the large number of her vocal supporters in the intelligentsia, who played a major role in diverting and then altering public opinion and perception in her favour, had hoped that the perpetual street-fighter would gradually settle down to the role of a responsible and sagacious administrator and leader with a historic mandate supporting her to finally undo the damage Left rule had inflicted on West Bengal. But within a short span of two years Mamata has completely belied that belief. In fact one of the leading voices of this section which had continuously and vocally supported her, the veteran author Mahashweta Devi, had to remind Mamata of the need to follow her dharma as a leader and administrator and not patronise and shelter disruptionist and anti-national elements.
The tattered paradise of the proletariat that Mamata inherited from the Communists she soon turned into the paradise or jannat of jihad, a safe hideout for the 1971 War Criminals of Bangladesh – the cadre of the Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir, the operating safe zones for the chit fund mafia as well as for politicians with strong extra-territorial links and allegiances. Mamata Banerjee has rescinded all her positions and stances when in opposition. Clubbed with all of these is the Chief Minister’s own temperamental approach to issues of governance and law & order and her hysteric attitude of erecting roadblocks against Constitutional and Central institutions. By raising the bogey of federalism in danger, Mamata hopes to stymie the CBI’s and NIA’s long arms in exposing the links that some of her party leaders have nurtured over the years with elements that are clearly inimical to India’s national interest and security. In order to protect her minority vote-bank Mamata can even throw to the winds national security concerns. Is it acceptable or even credible that a Chief Minister who successfully decimated the Maoist network in her State would have been ignorant of the growing jihadi network in the region?
In a scathing editorial in the leading Dainik Statesman its editor in chief Manash Ghosh, has recently pointed out that roots of the Burdwan blasts are so deep and so widespread, leading beyond national boundaries that it would be impossible to go to the genesis of the entire operation without involving the NIA. An exhaustive investigation, Ghosh has argued, is bound to lead to sensational findings that may announce the end of Mamata brand of politics in West Bengal. Ghosh has also pointed out that the blasts were, in a sense, a “joint venture” of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the Pakistan ISI and the banned SIMI.
The leaflets and the CDs that were found in the blood-splattered room at Khagragarh village, in Burdwan, called for jihad from Bengal to Baghdad – a call similar to that given by the cadre of the now banned Bangaldesh terror outfit Jamatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) which talked of turning Bangladesh into Talibanised Afghanistan. Interestingly, the plan of the operatives to engineer simultaneous explosion in multiple locations across West Bengal and beyond resembles the modus operandi of the JMB when in the August of 2005 it had exploded 500 odd country bombs all across Bangladesh. The JMB’s print has clearly emerged in this case too.
The fact that one of those killed was a Bangladeshi national again brings to the fore the core issue of illegal infiltration into West Bengal. The Communists, in their three decades of uninterrupted, rule encouraged and facilitated this infiltration, late Comrade Jyoti Basu did not mind if a few from the other side loitered into India to watch a movie in a mofussil cinema hall, he also didn’t care to check if they went back or further loitered into the interiors of his State and of the country. Such a thing, the comrades have always argued, cannot be helped. Their facilitation of infiltration not only swelled their own vote-bank but also ensured the creation of permanent pockets along the border in West Bengal that have, over the years, turned into hideouts for criminals and terrorists groups. Just because they now support the demand for an NIA probe, the comrades cannot evade responsibility for sowing the initial seeds of jihad in West Bengal.
In order to enlarge and consolidate her minority vote-bank, Mamata Banerjee has only continued to build on the Left’s accretion of decades, with some of her party men actively encouraging and sheltering jihadi elements that walked over from Bangladesh. Under Mamata’s regime, these elements appeared to have gained legitimacy within the State’s dominant political framework and have not only thrived in terms of resources but have also radicalised the political space in the State.
It is perhaps for this reason that one saw her livid and making debasing remarks when Prime Minister Modi talked about infiltration in course of the 2014 general election campaign in West Bengal. Mamata had then accused Narendra Modi of spreading communal fear where all live in harmony and amity. That harmonious and collective living has now been exposed for what it is – TMC cadre cohabiting with jihadis whose sole purpose is to subvert India and to compromise her national security and national interest. The faster such a nexus is exposed, the better it shall be for the overall well-being of the State.
Real “poriborton” still eludes the people of West Bengal, they had certainly not voted for a “jihadi paradise” in lieu of a “proletarian one.”
Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal’s Jihad paradise | India News Analysis Opinions on Niti Central
There was always something highly unstable in the persona of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. But that maverick and irrational streak was, till the other day, overlooked largely because of her intense and uncompromising anti-Communist credentials and her personal incorruptibility. Even during the nadir of her anti-Left politics, when little compromises of all sorts would have allowed Mamata to continue to maintain her anti-Left façade and yet remain protected and sheltered politically and in terms of resources, she refused to capitulate and maintain her personal frugality and Spartan ways continued to champion anti-Left politics in West Bengal till the red citadel crumbled in the summer of 2011.
Many, in fact perhaps most among the large number of her vocal supporters in the intelligentsia, who played a major role in diverting and then altering public opinion and perception in her favour, had hoped that the perpetual street-fighter would gradually settle down to the role of a responsible and sagacious administrator and leader with a historic mandate supporting her to finally undo the damage Left rule had inflicted on West Bengal. But within a short span of two years Mamata has completely belied that belief. In fact one of the leading voices of this section which had continuously and vocally supported her, the veteran author Mahashweta Devi, had to remind Mamata of the need to follow her dharma as a leader and administrator and not patronise and shelter disruptionist and anti-national elements.
The tattered paradise of the proletariat that Mamata inherited from the Communists she soon turned into the paradise or jannat of jihad, a safe hideout for the 1971 War Criminals of Bangladesh – the cadre of the Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir, the operating safe zones for the chit fund mafia as well as for politicians with strong extra-territorial links and allegiances. Mamata Banerjee has rescinded all her positions and stances when in opposition. Clubbed with all of these is the Chief Minister’s own temperamental approach to issues of governance and law & order and her hysteric attitude of erecting roadblocks against Constitutional and Central institutions. By raising the bogey of federalism in danger, Mamata hopes to stymie the CBI’s and NIA’s long arms in exposing the links that some of her party leaders have nurtured over the years with elements that are clearly inimical to India’s national interest and security. In order to protect her minority vote-bank Mamata can even throw to the winds national security concerns. Is it acceptable or even credible that a Chief Minister who successfully decimated the Maoist network in her State would have been ignorant of the growing jihadi network in the region?
In a scathing editorial in the leading Dainik Statesman its editor in chief Manash Ghosh, has recently pointed out that roots of the Burdwan blasts are so deep and so widespread, leading beyond national boundaries that it would be impossible to go to the genesis of the entire operation without involving the NIA. An exhaustive investigation, Ghosh has argued, is bound to lead to sensational findings that may announce the end of Mamata brand of politics in West Bengal. Ghosh has also pointed out that the blasts were, in a sense, a “joint venture” of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the Pakistan ISI and the banned SIMI.
The leaflets and the CDs that were found in the blood-splattered room at Khagragarh village, in Burdwan, called for jihad from Bengal to Baghdad – a call similar to that given by the cadre of the now banned Bangaldesh terror outfit Jamatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) which talked of turning Bangladesh into Talibanised Afghanistan. Interestingly, the plan of the operatives to engineer simultaneous explosion in multiple locations across West Bengal and beyond resembles the modus operandi of the JMB when in the August of 2005 it had exploded 500 odd country bombs all across Bangladesh. The JMB’s print has clearly emerged in this case too.
The fact that one of those killed was a Bangladeshi national again brings to the fore the core issue of illegal infiltration into West Bengal. The Communists, in their three decades of uninterrupted, rule encouraged and facilitated this infiltration, late Comrade Jyoti Basu did not mind if a few from the other side loitered into India to watch a movie in a mofussil cinema hall, he also didn’t care to check if they went back or further loitered into the interiors of his State and of the country. Such a thing, the comrades have always argued, cannot be helped. Their facilitation of infiltration not only swelled their own vote-bank but also ensured the creation of permanent pockets along the border in West Bengal that have, over the years, turned into hideouts for criminals and terrorists groups. Just because they now support the demand for an NIA probe, the comrades cannot evade responsibility for sowing the initial seeds of jihad in West Bengal.
In order to enlarge and consolidate her minority vote-bank, Mamata Banerjee has only continued to build on the Left’s accretion of decades, with some of her party men actively encouraging and sheltering jihadi elements that walked over from Bangladesh. Under Mamata’s regime, these elements appeared to have gained legitimacy within the State’s dominant political framework and have not only thrived in terms of resources but have also radicalised the political space in the State.
It is perhaps for this reason that one saw her livid and making debasing remarks when Prime Minister Modi talked about infiltration in course of the 2014 general election campaign in West Bengal. Mamata had then accused Narendra Modi of spreading communal fear where all live in harmony and amity. That harmonious and collective living has now been exposed for what it is – TMC cadre cohabiting with jihadis whose sole purpose is to subvert India and to compromise her national security and national interest. The faster such a nexus is exposed, the better it shall be for the overall well-being of the State.
Real “poriborton” still eludes the people of West Bengal, they had certainly not voted for a “jihadi paradise” in lieu of a “proletarian one.”
Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal’s Jihad paradise | India News Analysis Opinions on Niti Central
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