Thursday, October 9, 2008 | 
This is not the first time an Indian politician has done this, but yet another incident of back stabbing the people of the nation. The Mamta Banerjee led agitation was more an effort to capture the vote bank of rural Bengal. The policy of non-industrialization earlier adopted by the communists has been a taste of their own medicine. On the other hand a more agressive and visionary Narendra Modi has seized the opprtunity to make take his state a step further
Looking at the bigger picture it has been a loose-loose situation for everybody. Around 2200 farmers were hopeful of a better deal. Most of the agitators had simply no relation with the land and were simply Trinamool Congress activists or people given money to stand there. A whole lot of money (around 2.5 lakh per day) was spent to provide food and shelter to the agitators around the Nano plant. The Nano plant, seen as the flagship plant of the Industrialization of Bengal is now history. The host of other small and Medium enterprises, which could have sprung up is again down in the drain. More importantly the short and long term employement it could have created were immense.
West Bengal will again be the poor underdeveloped state it was. It just makes me think, what good are our "leaders" (or just politicians) doing for the nation its people and why at all are we voting for them, who are not even true to themselves.
Looking at the bigger picture it has been a loose-loose situation for everybody. Around 2200 farmers were hopeful of a better deal. Most of the agitators had simply no relation with the land and were simply Trinamool Congress activists or people given money to stand there. A whole lot of money (around 2.5 lakh per day) was spent to provide food and shelter to the agitators around the Nano plant. The Nano plant, seen as the flagship plant of the Industrialization of Bengal is now history. The host of other small and Medium enterprises, which could have sprung up is again down in the drain. More importantly the short and long term employement it could have created were immense.
West Bengal will again be the poor underdeveloped state it was. It just makes me think, what good are our "leaders" (or just politicians) doing for the nation its people and why at all are we voting for them, who are not even true to themselves.
