Thursday, September 27, 2007

Mamata –lies –Singur suicide –more lies

Mamata ––Singur

That Mamata Banerjee is the epitome of opportunism and falsehood is a bygone conclusion, but now she is the new avatar of disruption of life for all Kolkattans. She at once grabs any event that can be twisted and turned for some political mileage and she will go no ends to assert that the situation is grave. Her new mantra is – Raasta Rocko.

Just the other day a man, fed up with his situation of penury and a unstable marriage, wherein he suspected his wife to be philandering other village men broke down and took the extreme step of committing suicide. The poor man hung himself from a guava tree outside his house. A sad case indeed. Sad, as a precious human life was ebbed out. Unfortunately suicides have become a regular routine event in our country and not a single day passes with one not being recorded.

But, then comes the twist in the tale. The man who died was a resident of Singur. This information was enough cannon fodder for a Mamata. She immediately went into whirlwind action and termed the suicide as a Murder. Her justification – the tata motor car plant that was coming up at singur had resulted in that mans loosing his land and this unhappiness spurred him to take the extreme step. Sadly, her claim bust within minutes, when it became public knowledge that the man belonged to a poor family, who never owned any land and that he used to work in a steel company at Kumarkundu. Not to be outdone, Mamata claimed that before he worked in Kumarkundu, he was a sharecropper, tilling the land of other farmers, and that he lost his job as those farmers sold their land. Now, how can anyone argue with such nonsense? For one, the man was earning five times the amount he ever made working as a sharecropper. Finally, with the public smirking at Mamata and the media avoiding her, mamata called for a Raasta Rocko in Kolkatta. All Kolkattans received this news with dread, as it obstructed their life. The choked streets of Kolkatta if stopped further results in huge traffic jams disrupting the life of all commuters. The irritation was evident when one overheard people on the streets commenting that – some bugger commits suicide in some far flung place, and this stupid woman brings our life to a standstill. Sadly a loss of life was being derided owing to stunts by Mamata.

We can only advise Mamata, to pay heed to public sentiments otherwise the mantle of a politician that she is still donning will slip out very soon.