At the mercy of the criminals!

It's really unbelievable that a married woman accompanied by her husband was forcibly bundled in an auto by a group of auto drivers at broad daylight in full view of others in busy Kolkata Road and whisked away to other place to teach her a lesson by outraging her modesty as she protested along with her husband when an auto collided with their car.Her husband was also badly beaten by auto drivers.The next part of the story is more incredible.When complained to police they did not even arrest the auto-driver.Nor did they slap him with a non-bailable offence like kidnapping and molesting a woman.The accused auto-driver was freed on bail bond of only Rs.600 next day. Is it a civilized society that we're living in?Isn't it a Jungle raj?We feel extremely unsecured and helpless.Such incident may occur with any one of us at any time.There is none to protect us.The custodian of law look the other way when crime takes place.They, in fact, take sides with the criminals keeping us in the receiving end.More often than not cops are dictated by political leaders.If the administration severely deal with these offences irrespective of political complexions and the offenders get exemplary punishment, incidences of crime will definitely decrease to a considerable extent.Unfortunately the way police administration is blatantly pampering the criminals they'll(criminal) soon rule the roost in our society.Days are not far off when we'll be at the mercy of the criminals.

Mamata's U-turn!

Mamata Banerjee has candidly spoken her mind as to why she's decided to vote Pranab Mukherjee in Prez poll.She'd only two optons:abstaining from vote or voting for Pranab Mukherjee.She has chosen the latter one in the interest of democracy.Her decision has not been influenced by expectation of any financial package from center, she's claimed.She's taken this course of action against her will and with heavy heart.,she's mentioned.In reality Mamata has taken the right decision which she should have taken much earlier. Almost in each case of dissension with Center on different issues she came out winner and was able to establish she was a member of prime consequence in UPA with only 19 MPs.Perhaps her ego did tempt her to dictate terms in Presidential election also.But her game plan suffered a jolt when Mulayam Sing Jadav back tracked on his promise to support any of their jointly chosen candidates like APJ Abdul Kalam, Monmohun Sing and Somnath Chatterjee.That apart she offended Congress by naming Monmohun Sing, the existing PM, as Presidential candidate.It amounts to expressing no confidence to Monmohun Sing as PM.Congress made no delay in declaring the name of Pranab Mukherjee as Presidential candidate of their choice.Now Mamata is left alone in her crusade against opposing Prez candidacy of Congress.She repeatedly requested APJ Abdul Kalam, whose name she perhaps declared as a Presidential candidate even without taking his consent, to contest Prez poll.She vociferously campaigned for him in Facebook.However,Mr. Kalam, who was once unanimously elected as President of India, didn't agree to contest the poll.A perfect gentleman as he is, he complimented Mamata for selecting him as presidential candidate.That apart, Mamata can't support NDA candidate P.A.Sangma in view of her minority vote bank which is sufficiently strong. So Mamata was marginalized in national politics Perhaps Mamata's resentment against Pranab Mukherjee has originated from her frustration that her repeated request to him for special financial package or granting moratorium on repayment of huge loan to center has been turned down on the plea that India is a Federal country.If any special privilege is given to a particular state other states too would demand such special treatment.However, Congress didn't take Mamta's decision not to vote for their Presidential candidate desapite being one of the allies of UPA govt lying down.They started mounting pressure on her in different ways.Sometimes Central ministers have come to state and made adverse comments on functioning of the govt.State congress too have taken to streets in protest against law and order , price hike and different issues.However, at the same time central leadership was trying to persuade Mamata to change her mind.This blow-hot-and-blow-cold attitude of congress yielded some result.She's perhaps thought if center starts non-cooperating with her govt state will suffer and she'll lose her popularity which will affect her vote bank.After all money is needed for developmental activities.It's not wise to live in water and be enemy of the crocodiles.

Talibani Fatwa!

It's unbelievable that in the 21st century at Bhagpat, a place only 42 Km away from New Delhi some people have given fatwa against love marriage and dictated no woman below 40 shall go for shopping and must not use mobile phones outside their homes They've further dictated women must be covered when they go outside home and women above 40 must not stir out of home alone.This Talibani fatwa has been dictated by Khap Panchayet.First of all, how dare these people give this fatwa against women infringing their fundamental right?Secondly,has administration taken any legal action against the people who have made this illegal and bizarre order?Bhagpat is under the constituency of Civil aviation minister Ajit Sing who himself could take note of this unlawful fatwa which constitutes a cognizable offence. Akhilesh Jadav the young and energetic Chief minister of newly formed U.P govt must come forward to rescue Bhagpat women from Talibani fatwa.But what's most worrying is political parties might look the other way considering their vote bank at Bhagpat.

Mass molestation in Assam!

People who're actively involved in the barbaric incident of molesting and stripping a teenage girl are even worse than beasts.The on-lookers who apparently enjoyed the most uncivilized incident are no less than subhuman beings.The TV cameramen who took shot of the hapless girl trapped in hell fire for as much as 30 mins. seemingly to increase the TRP of the channel or sell the ugly footage at a premium instead of calling cops to rescue the girl deserve condemnation from all well meaning people,although admittedly it's the footage that helped the administration to nab some of the miscreants.Police also draw flak for reaching the spot late and taking action even later.Perhaps unless media started clamouring about the incident, Assam govt could not assess the gravity of the situation.In fact, administration reacted so late that the miscreants had enough time to make themselves scarce.Photographs of the accused have been displayed on bill boards and till now only a handful of them have been apprehended by cops.The whole nation has reacted sharply to and is fuming over such a diabolic act one could ever imagine in a civilised society.The incident has regrettably shown the bestial instinct of man when let lose can wreak havoc with all norms of the society we're living in.

Anarchy in education!

While move is being made to make Presidency University a center of excellence by recruiting best faculty from across the globe,the education in undergraduate levels are in total doldrums in the state.What's most worrying is foot steps of late sixties or early seventies are getting increasingly louder day by day in the arena of education.Now teachers and non teaching staff as well have been soft target of attack by the students and outsiders as well in academic institutions.Incidences of physical assault on teachers which did scarcely occur even in early seventies now take place almost at regular intervals.Students take on teachers without any compunction, whatsoever.As in seventies students now seem to claim copying as their legitimate right.When invigilators, who are primarily teachers, prevent them from taking unfair means, it's unbelievable they are so brutally roughed up by examinees that some of them even need be admitted to hospital.If these incidents are not stopped immediately dark days of mass copying and turbulence in seventies would soon revisit our educational institutions. The assailants are not always students.Imagine, the president Governing body of a college threw a water jug towards a lady teacher to teach her lesson.Perhaps this muscle flexing and assault on teachers in college compasses all started from the incident that took place at Raigunge College where the College principal was played like a ping pong ball by outsiders in presence of a political leader of that locality.The administration played down the incident as minor one and the assailants were slapped with bailable offence so that they were set free almost immediately after arrest..The incident has, in fact, encouraged those who indulge in violent activities including manhandling of teaching and non teaching personnel in college compasses.So in the wake of Raigunj incident similar occurrence took place in many other colleges too.Now teachers are suffering from fear psychosis.

Price-hike of vegetables

Our Chief minister made surprise visits to some markets in Kolkata to see for herself how high are the prices of vegetables and why they are so exorbitantly high.It's claimed the extremely hot weather and lack of rains even at the end of June are responsible for this sky high prices of vegetables.No or inadequate rains have affected growth of vegetables and scorching heat on the other hand destroy to some extent which are grown.May it be partially true ,but what is very surprising why is the yawning gap in prices the farmers get and the vegetables are sold in the market?Again, why is so much differences in price of the same commodity in different markets in Kolkata.Transport cost can't be the reason as argued some times?There must be some sort of maneuvering some where.It may be the middlemen who pull the string to manipulate prices.In fact, it so happens as there's no control or monitoring of prices by some appropriate authority.It's all left to the businessmen alone.Only when prices become too high there's furor and administration makes some knee-jerk movement to visit markets and make statements to display their concern for common people.No body cares to go deep in to the problem to address it sincerely.What's most unfortunate is the sudden awakening of the administration hardly yield any result.In Left regime too during abnormal price rise ministers visited markets, admonished traders not to horde commodities and sell them at reasonable prices.But it didn't cut any ice.CM's visit too would be only the repetition of the past and nothing else.