What makes the West Bengal elections so essential

Inside the world’s largest democracy, the individuals of West Bengal have been experiencing ruthless dictatorship nearly for 5 a long time. People voted towards the autocratic communist regime in 2011 by executing their voting proper and introduced Mamata Banerjee in energy. Unfortunately, the latter betrayed the individuals by following footsteps of the erstwhile communists and proceed to oppress individuals’s voice.
Due to the illustration of distorted historical past at school textbooks, most people of West Bengal aren’t conscious of the results of the partition on the finish of India’s freedom battle. The Hindus within the undivided Bengal skilled rampant genocide in 1946 below the Chief Minister of undivided Bengal specifically Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who is named the mastermind of “The Greater Kolkata Killing”.
To save the Hindu Bengali neighborhood, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee snatched West Bengal from the grasp of Muslim League. After 74 years of that incident, we’ve got seen a poster in social media to pay tribute to Suhrawardy on his loss of life anniversary. Instead of verifying the originality of that poster or any kind of clarification of the creator of that poster, police administration arrested frequent individuals who condemned that unique put up. This one incident is sufficient to point out the place we’re heading to! 
TMC leaders arrange a brand new development of attacking the Prime Minister or Home Minister of the nation or any BJP leaders from one other state as outsiders however the CM had no drawback to carry hand with leaders of different regional political events to type third entrance alliance throughout 2019 General election. Even frequent individuals like us, the NRI Bengalis had been labelled as expats by TMC MP. This is unhappy however true that many distinguished indicators of fascism are prominently seen in bare eye below the dictatorship of Mamata Banerjee. 
Until now, 138 alleged political murders passed off within the state. People have been discovered hanged until loss of life in public locations with folded knees touching the bottom and shamelessly, the state police didn’t have the heart to declare it as homicide. Recently a employee of the BJP get together was shot close to the police station. In the previous few days, two had been brutally overwhelmed to loss of life whereas they reached out to individuals as part of BJP’s ballot marketing campaign.
The convoy of the nationwide President of the BJP was attacked by the goons in entrance of the police. The State Government didn’t even enable to protest in democratic approach and used all energy to oppress the voice of frequent individuals once they got here out to the road. 
Secondly, for the reason that starting. the Trinamool authorities has not left any stone unturned to appease the minority vote financial institution. The Hindu neighborhood needed to go to courtroom to take permission to immerse “Maa Durga” idols whereas the federal government allowed minority communities to hold on their competition on the identical day.
Even through the lockdown on account of covid, the federal government didn’t have the heart to limit the spiritual rituals of minorities. Strangely, through the section clever opening, the federal government purposely left Friday from lockdown to permit individuals from the minority neighborhood to collect for his or her spiritual rituals. Several riots have been taken place in several areas of West Bengal and the federal government maintained absolute silence to maintain their vote financial institution protected.
In addition, most of TV media maintains silence towards the TMC sponsored hooliganism or the false claims of the ministers of the state. Media individuals like Sanmay Banerjee, Shafikul Islam had been despatched to jail for elevating their voice towards such anarchism.
Furthermore, corruption grew to become an inseparable companion of the TMC authorities. Many scams are presently below investigation. Also, job prospects look equally dire throughout the state. As quickly as Mamata Banerjee got here to energy, she stopped SEZ and took a stand towards FDI. Neither industrialization has taken place, neither is there any deal with infrastructure growth. The final hope which individuals had was authorities service. Now with the rampant corruption, that has additionally change into a distant not so possible dream for many.
It has been broadly reported that household individuals of state ministers and leaders of TMC had been waived off from emergency Covid obligation they usually additionally held excessive put up in lots of locations which they don’t deserve. The honorable Kolkata High Court lately cancelled the recruitment panel of WB School Service Commission after 6 years of authorized battle which vouches for example of the extent of corruption.
It is evidently that there isn’t any legislation and order within the state. Continuous oppression of the liberty of faith of Hindu neighborhood, excessive appeasement of minority neighborhood and opposition in the direction of the Citizenship Amendment Act makes it essential to ask if the TMC desires to make West Bengal a second Bangladesh? The Hindu Bengali neighborhood has gone by way of devastating battle of existence twice within the current previous and if the TMC get together continues to stay in energy, we would need to struggle our third battle.
Over the previous decade, the state authorities doubled the debt of the state with out attempting to arrange infrastructure growth for industrialization. As the 2021 Bidhan Sabha election is coming, it turns into essential for us to not get trapped by the false guarantees of this corrupt TMC authorities, reasonably to elect the proper authorities to avoid wasting our future generations.
Note: The article was authored by Rudra Prasanna Banerjee, Research Scholar, Canada.