The figures first.
The figures show how CPM and co have performed in the recent Zilla Panchayat elections. The same thing said in boring words.
The verdict was clear: although the Left has kept its control over a majority of the seats at all levels, it has received its worst setback ever. The Left Front won 1,633 of the 3,220 Gram Panchayats in the state, down from its 2003 tally of 2303.
The Opposition won 1,463 GPs , with the Trinamool bagging the major share, almost three-quarters. In the 2003 Panchayat elections, the Opposition had got barely 917 GPs.
Of the 329 Panchayat samitis (the middle tier), the Left Front had won 284 and the Opposition 45 in 2003. This year, however, the Left’s tally shrunk to 189 while the Opposition surged to 140.
The Left parties’ trouncing was expected but with West Bengal nothing is sure. Nandigram is the most definitive cause but lest the columnists start laying the Left to rest, mandatory words of caution need to be uttered.
The Left is anchored too deeply to expect an overnight uprooting from its strongest fort. Courtesy this clobbering, they will revise their secret Black Book of Winning Elections the Democratic Way authored by Josef Stalin to look for stronger ways of staying there.
There’s no formula to detect the voting psyche of the Indian voter. But in this case, anti-incumbency or anti-Left sentiment is near-certainly ruled out. Nandigram is the overwhelming answer. The CPM should’ve realized that India is not China and Nandigram is not Tiananmen Square when it went on a bloodletting rampage butchering thousands of innocent citizens.
The top CPM mafia bosses have been quick to embark on the mandatory introspection.
…CPM veteran Biman Bose: “We have to discuss why this grievance accumulated to such an extent…Our arrogance, ego and deviations —- we must study if these were factors…We will review whether the functioning of our Panchayats is to blame for the results. There may have been some deviations.”
“People have not liked our style of functioning and we will have to take a lesson, but that does not mean they have voted against industrialisation,”
Clamorous nonsense. Elsewhere I recall reading the secret of the Left’s success in West Bengal: proportionate access to state-looted wealth to party members percolating down the ladder. It logically follows that industrialization is just another opportunity.
CPM’s present debacle might just be a short term outcome of people waiting to vent their anger against the state’s willing use of brute force. The true test of the Left’s fate is in the imminent Lok Sabha poll stadium. For now, we can only hope that the resultant figures of that poll match this one.
Tags: Commentary, Indian Politics, War on Communism
:roll:This proves that the so called COMMUNIST PARADISE is actually a hell ruled by despot’s.
Well our Begali brethren have finally got a chance to VOTE and they have not failed 800 million hopes!
Guys…this might be a small victory, but this is the beginning of the end for the followers of a dead ideology called COMMUNISM!!!
So let’s soak in this victory ……CHEERS !!!!!
Everyone has to pay for their sin. That is what is happening for CPM.
this is just the beginning, more debacle is yet to come for them.
Awesome!! Congratulations to all Bharatiya patriots. One more push and the commies will sink in the Bay of Bengal.
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Aye Sorry for above.
Commies loss in these election may not necessarily augur well for the voters in Bengal. Commies might retaliate with more brutality and scientific rigging. Not that they did not try this time, but with more force may be next time. I can trust a ’snake’ but not any commie. Even if they sit ‘bare buttock’ on a hot plate on fire.
Although I am happy that these Commies are shown their place but, I am apprehensive too about their ‘dirty tricks’, they have up their sleeves.
PI.
:sad:Yeah PI….The Commie despot’s will let loose a reign of terror on out Bengali brethren, to ensure that they fall in line with their diktats.
May god punish these godless commies, mercilessly.
Congratulations, Bharatiya patriot brothers! Aaj Karnataka jeet gaye, kal pura Bharat jeetenge!!
Guys, a communist defeat in West Bengal will entail power for Muslims. I had never thought it would come to this, but in West Bengal essentially the battle is between Islam and communism. In absolute terms rural Bengal is now 46% Islamic, thanks to unchecked migration by Bangladeshis. While, this is again due to opportunistic politics by Jyoti Basu and comrades, it augurs ill for the country as a whole.
Its not long before Muslims form their own political party, or join an opportunistic politician like Mamata Banerjee, and form the second Muslim majority state of the country. J&K was the first.
The above is unfortunately correct. Bengal is screwed.
Let us hope for that, also see the media bias in reporting that election.
http://wordlyaffair.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/who-really-won-west-bengal-panchayat-polls-media-bias/