No Confidence Motion

As a politician Mamata Banerjee is unique in herself.She's more guided by emotions than by reasons.Nor has she learnt from mistakes and she's paying for it.See, all on a sudden she announced the names of the Presidential candidates in consultation with the most unpredictable man in Indian politics Mulayem Sing Jadav and openly declared she would not support the candidature of Pranab Mukherjee in Prez poll.Mulayem as usual changed his stance and Mamata was isolated.Undaunted she desperately started campaigning for her candidates but ultimately called it quits disgruntled failing to garner support in her favour. As an ally of UPA she almost moved the govt around by noose according to her sweet will.But as Center didn't agree to comply with her repeated undue requests to do her extra favour by sanctioning moratorium on state's debt to Center, her relation with UPA turned sour.So she severed her relation with Center in protest against its 'anti-people' measures like FDI ,fuel price hike etc.Contrary to her expectation that Center would sincerely try to bring her back, Center,in fact, did nothing worthwhile to this effect except making only formal request to reconsider her decision.This indifference made her furious and she decided to topple the UPA govt by moving no confidence motion in the winter session of the parliament.She made declaration to this effect also and that too with her only 19 MPs.She perhaps took it for granted that other political parties would also lend support to her obviously legitimate move of no confidence motion.Now she's in a fix.She can't even procure the support of requisite number of MPs(at least 50) to initiate the no-confidence motion, let alone win the motion.Now she has been so desperate and feel so desolate that she's approached her most despised enemy so called 'untouchable' CPIM) on whom she breaths fire and brimstone almost every day for support.Mamata Banerjee who's supposed to be a matured politician by many is now in a pitiable plight for which she's herself responsible.

Ban on Teen Kanya!

Perhaps to ban screening of film Teen Kanya at Star Theater Kolkata is a well planned move of the administration to divert public attention from ongoing mess at Haldia port.Incidentally, the film is duly certified by the censor board.However, whatever may the ploy to clamp ban on this film, it deserves all-out condemnation from all sections of the society.It's the fall-out of the authoritarian mindset of the state administration which can't tolerate the slightest criticism about its activities.The concerned film depicts a Park street like incident and it is supposed to have offended the concerned authority.Any sensible man or a film critic will not find fault in display of such an incident but the govt that has shown extreme callousness and acted most irresponsibly in similar circumstances as presented in the film perhaps suffer from guilty conscience and so impose ban on screening of the film. Govt might have assumed the film intends to criticise its wrong doing to show it in poor light.This act of the administration is nothing but the infringement of fundamental right of its citizen that is normally done in dictatorial regime.We hope, those who recently and very rightly protested against the ban on staging of the drama Pashu Khamar ,an adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm in the fag end of the Left rule must come forward and vehemently oppose the ban on Teen Kannya too.

A few lessons to learn!

The proposed HBT pull-out from Haldia Port furnishes the following lessons: 1) Retrenched workers can retrench their employers. 2) A corporate body should see to the interest of a public representative (here MP) who best knows public mind.. 3) Law and order is a subjective subject. 4) Media should subserve those who rule the state as they only know what’s ‘best’ for the state. 5) Kidnap is a technique to protect those who’re in danger. However, it’s often misinterpreted as coercion. 6) Have full faith in administration .Never put it in the dock. 7) Neither spread rumour, nor pay heed to rumour. 8) Believe only administration speaks the truth. .