It’s celebration time for TMC supporters in Bengal.They great each other with green abir.Jubilant TMC supporters flash the victory sign,weaving party flag and symbol.Die hard Mamat (TMC supremo) painted their bodies wth party symbol.Calcutta and neighbouring Salt Lake have changed their color from red to green.Political observers believe that the trend of the last general election (2009) repeated again.The results of local body elections once again proved that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee,a poet and playwright led Left Front government lost the popular mandate.People clearly reject the Left.In this local body elections,main opposition parties of Bengal,TMC and it’s ally Indian National Congress (INC) contested separately due to differences in seat sharing.But,TMC got absolute majority (95 out of 141) to form the next board in Calcutta Municipal Corporation.If the trend continues in the Assembly election 2011,Bengal will vote decisively against the Marxist led Left Front,comments a political analyst.Opposition Parties improved their performances significantly.Recent poll debacle both in the local and general elections worried the left leadership a lot and they agree that it’s the time to change.
Calcutta has change it’s color
Since taking charge of West Bengal in 2000,from late Jyoti Basu,the ‘capitalist’ Chief Minister of World’s longest serving democratically elected Marxist Government,Mr. Bhattacharjee, tried to woo foreign Investors to set up industries in Calcutta (Kolkata). Indian giants like Tata Motors planned to set up a factory for its low-cost-car project Nano at Singur 40 km away from Calcutta despite violent protest.But,under pressure from opposition parties and within his Left coalition,he had decided to abandon plans for a chemical hub at Nandigram in East Midnapore District.He claimed full responsibility for violence on March 14,2007 when police firing left 14 protesters dead and several people injured.Farmland fiasco tarnish the clean image of Buddhadeb and his government.His subsequent remarks against intellectuals who oppose Government decision of farmland accusation didn’t go down well with the mass.Once a prosperous industrial state,mainly due to militant unionism most of the Industries in West Bengal are either sick or closed down.
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