Somenath Chatterjee, former Speaker of Lok Sabha and
a veteran former communist leader said, ‘It is essential for all opposition
forces to come together in bringing about a change in the government in West
Bengal.’ Hence we get a newly allied CPM-Congress party against Mamata Banerjee's All
India Trinamool Congress (AITC).
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Mathematically
it’s known when two negatives bond, one positive is created. But according to
our versatile NarendraModi, in politics mathematical orders don’t work instead
the chances are more exponential. The recent alliance may possess a threat to
the colossal armada of Trinamool Congress but the question is how catastrophic
or insignificant would it be. It’s a do or die situation for CPIM &
Congress as their base and image both has been lost in the battle over power.
History
tells us that Congress was the undisputed name at the capital whereas CPIM was
the same at Bengal with a long tenure of being at power with the majority of
the population in their favour until the recent shakedown of the central poll
of 2014 and the state poll of 2011.
But
there is a pre synopsis to this alliance. Back in 1960s and in the beginning of
the 70s the communists planted the seeds of antipathy towards the Congress and
in the years following 2000, Trinamool had allied with the Congress against
CPIM. It’s clear that there have been some serious conflicts of interests and
bonding of interests which ultimately gave birth to this alliance and to be
honest politics has always been the game of snake and ladder where yesterday’s
friend become today’s foe and vice-versa.
Almost
7 decades after the communist party was found, the West Bengal party unit has
become desperate with the alliance of Congress to topple the Trinamool Congress
govt from Writers’ and Nobanno. The philosophy lies in the tactical measures to
be taken by the arch rivals of yesteryear who are clearly strategizing to eat
up the pie with the aim of surpassing the vote percentage in the composite form.
In case if this turns out to be the reality the vote share of TMC would definitely
go thin with its geographic presence in Bengal also in the loop side; with a
huge presence in southern West Bengal but a weak presence in central and
northern West Bengal provided that there would be some action from the house of
BJP too.
The essence of the reality can be summed
up in one sentence of its own. The communists do not have a ghost of a chance
to win and so does Congress, hence the remedy is to join hands and fight for
the common goal. However, the result of this could be disastrous for Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee. But as per the voting results of the 2011 assembly
elections and 2014 Lok Sabha elections, we have seen that Trinamool has won the
maximum number of seats in both the elections and in turn increasing the
chances of them bagging the maximum number of seats this time as well.
Now all we need to do is to sit and
watch whether this new alliance will seriously bring any change in West Bengal,
or else the only visible problem thereafter would be the sharing of seats which
lies inevitable in the near future.
Monalisa Mitra
( PG MEDIA 2015-2017)
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