Saturday, April 14, 2012

No democratic ruler is sacrosanct in democracy

No democratic ruler is sacrosanct in democracy, so is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee.Now-a-days, power even gained through the due election process in democracy makes the political leader like West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamul Congress boss Mamata Bannerjee intolerant to joke and ridiculing, which is a way of expression. Freedom of expression is a fundamental right in democracy. Her rule arrested the expression in the state. Her government arrested Yadavpur University Professor Dr. Ambikesh Mahapatra and a retired engineer for circulating an e-mail ridiculing the CM and Union Railway Minister and her trusted lieutenant Mukul Roy and alluding them to a dialogue of Satyajit Roy’s film. Trinamul government’s dictatorial action has been severely criticized by the entire intellectual class of West Bengal and the students of Yadavpur University. Undoubtedly, the intellectual class of the state had openly supported Mamata’s Trinamul Congress in the last assembly elections and her party won with overwhelming majority. She threw the more than three decade’s old Left rule out of power. Has the thought ever gone across the CM’s mind how she became able to get this type of massive support of the people? Her party got massive support of all sections of the people to get rid of the Left dictatorship of the state. But in return if her government’s less than a year’s performance is anything to go, the people of West Bengal in particular and the UPA Govt. at the Centre are facing Trinamul Congress dictatorial behaviour in general. Trinamul Congress Government is proving to be worse than the previous Left regime. During the Left regime human values and freedom of expression, which is the essence of democracy, were never attacked. Professor Mahapatra and a retired engineer are not uneducated personalities and they are expected to know which joke is sexually explicit or not. The joke that they circulated through the e-mail expresses the individual imagination to poke someone and cause laughter and is not in any way objectionable. With the coming of power, Trinamul Congress has lost all sense of tolerance. To choose the way how to mock the government is the prerogative of the person who mocks. Trinamul Congress leaders and workers feel that the people of West Bengal have given their support to them for not being sacrosanct and no body can raise finger at their government’s programme and policies in the state. No regime in democracy is untouchable and the Trinamul boss must know that if her government did not mend ways, she and her party must be prepared to hear the judgement at the time of coming elections. CM Mamata Bannerjee must understand that unless and until her government provides better administration and freedom of expression to the people of the state, she can not retain the power. People are feeling her rash, undemocratic and dictatorial behaviour.

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