Mamata - It fits you so well

The Trinamool party led by Mamata Banerjee today announced that it is changing its National Party Symbol to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the party political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed. Damn, it just fits Mamata so smoothly.

This was sent to me by a friend from Kolkatta and i just could not resist to use it. It describes the Mamata brand of politics so damn accurately. Hope the Singur farmers see the light and let prosperity abound their land with the onset of industrialization

Singur farmer commits suicide - Mamata’s (The Devils) Luck

Singur farmer commits suicide - Mamata’s (The Devils) Luck


I can’t understand why people generally have a feel that we Indians are laidback? Are we really so? Well I don’t think so. If you just follow the pattern of how swiftly our politicians make hay while the sun shines on issues - with no relation whatsoever with what they are trying to profess, then believe me it will be a revelation of sorts.

Take a look at incidents that happened today – A Singur farmer commits suicide. Within an hour, Mamata and her brigade of phony politicos rushed to the site and fused the death with the Tata car factory. Means how Stupid can one be? Is Mamata aware of the number of farmers’ suicides happening in this country on a daily basis? Well she ought to get her facts correct - There have been some 250-farmer suicides in just the first three months of this year. Things could be a lot worse after June. And, as always, the farm suicides are a symptom of the crisis, not its cause. And the crisis has nothing to do with Tata motors. It has everything to do with our agrarian society; our ill structured socio economic policies of the past - though unfortunately the harbingers of prosperity are being penalized today. In Singur it is the Tata group which is bearing the brunt of our ill regulated past and of hungry vote bank politicos. All in all one has to read the PTI flash. It seems PTI too didn’t pay any heed to what the Prime Minister had advised the media yesterday– that it had to be more responsible and not act in the vulgar manner in which it acts today - just to sensationalize. The PTI news flash on the suicide is just that - its vulgar to the extent that it would have done better if it had been flashed under the name of MNS – Mamata News Service. - Read it for yourself :ZCZC


PRI GEN NAT
.SINGUR CAL1
TATA-FARMER
Singur farmer commits suicide
Singur (WB), May 25 (PTI) A Singur farmer, whose land was acquired
for Tata Motors small car project, allegedly committed suicide today.
The body of Prasanta Das, an inhabitant of Khaserbheri village
which is part of the project site, was found hanging from a tree
this morning, police said.
Investigations are on into the cause of his death, they said.
Das was one of the earliest members of the Trinamool Congress-backed
anti-displacement Krishi Jomi Bachao Committee and had not taken
the compensation money from the West Bengal government, its convenor
Becharam Manna claimed.
The Das family, consisting of three brothers, their wives and
children were dependent on the one-and-half acres owned by it and
was taken over for the car project. This had caused distress to the
family, Manna claimed.
A similar incident had taken place here in February when another
cultivator Haradhan Bag, whose land had been acquired without his
consent, had committed suicide.
A protest rally would be taken out in the evening by the Committee,
when it would also hold a law violation programme on the occasion
of the first anniversary of agitation against land acquisition here.
Trinamool general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy has
rushed to the spot. PTI COR SBR KK
SJY
05251238 DEL


And Finally Dear Mamata few Statistics for you -

Farmer Suicides – What’s New?

•Country with the largest number of malnourished children
•India one of 17 countries where number of undernourished increased substantially in the late 1990s
•1/5th of India’s population suffers from chronic hunger
•In the past few years the Supreme Court has more than once pulled up six states over starvation deaths
•Last five years has seen a slide-back to levels of hunger in rural areas not seen for over 50 years
•17 million tonnes of surplus food is exported at below poverty prices every year. And the rest is fed on by rats in Food Corporation of India Godowns.
•Farmer suicides over the past years has become a regular occurrence – 3000 farmers annually in Punjab, over 2000 farmers in a single district Anantpur in AP in 2002, 478 farmers in Karnataka in 2003 (between April to November)



Mamata, do you really care? ? Do you ?

We need your continued support

Dear Friends,

First and foremost, let me thank you all for your comments and feedback that were extremely insightful. One take away of all these comments is that this Blog has to play an active role to make people realize that we as a nation progress together and Bengal is not left behind.

People are sick and tired of the vote bank politicians and the new breed of activists who disrupt life at the drop of a hat. Nobody denies the need of activism, but activism for personal motives will not be tolerated.

Activists have made a profession of creating problems for reasons know only to them and shouting at the top of their voice trying to create a mass hysteria. I ask – Are you giving us a solution and if not and is if that’s beyond you, then don’t howl at the top of your voice. Who are you to fight a battle in people’s name where you are eying the victory just for you?

So my friends, please write in, share your thoughts and feed back as without these we would not be able to counter situations like Singur, which have been totally created by band of mercenaries. (Paid!! aren’t they?) This group is the weed, which will eat into the ripening crop of development, if not checked in time and then we would be left with empty desolate fields at the time of harvest.

Vision for West Bengal

Dear Friends,

Some incidents, some moments in life force one to stand up and take notice of how self-styled “leaders” exist across India to take advantage of every opportunity to exploit the innocent for their purely selfish gains.

In creating this blog, I feel a bit like Mahatma Gandhi must have felt when he was thrown out of the train that forced him to change the course of Indian History-such a feeling of disgust and helplessness, with no option but to take action through non-violent means to try and end oppression. For almost a year I (like any other Bengali) have been following the twists in the tale of Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal, but the irony of the whole issue has now started wrenching my guts and I just had to voice out and take on the might of agenda driven politicians and NGO’s.

It has now reached the limits or should I say the abyss. Like any true son of Bengal, it made me proud when Tata Motors decided to set up their plant in West Bengal given that they had the choice of tens of other states. To me and to lakhs of Bengalis it was a moment of truth and pride. Here was this sense of victory – that now Bengal shall be out of the throes of a limited agrarian society- which has made them weaker over the decades while the rest of the country moved ahead on the road to development.

It seemed that bright day’s were ahead, it was the window to “Amaar Sonar Bangla”. It was then that one recalled what Bal Gangadhar Tilak had said 70 years back – “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”. But alas! West Bengal is still struggling to take on that opportunity. One year down the line it seems we as a community are against development and we deny growth. We are happy in our small fenced low harvesting fields and content with the paltry amount, which we make to keep body and soul together and struggle for basic human needs.

Have we forgotten our history lessons?? Every nation, every inch of land in this world has developed only when they made the wheel turn from agriculture to industries. Why are we going backwards is what I fail to understand. At this rate we shall soon go back to the days when homosapiens were – Food Gatherers.

Where is the vision for Bengal?