SFI’s hooliganism

The manhandling of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Bannerjee and her finance minister Amit Mitra by the Student Federation of India, the student wing of CPI(M), is highly condemnable and a reflection of the failure of the Delhi police to provide security to them. This incident gives credence to the perception that Delhi is becoming more and more unsafe. When Delhi police is unable to provide security to the Chief Minister of a state in Delhi, it cannot be expected to give safety and security to general Delhiites. Bannerjee and her ministers may not have followed the police instruction how and through which gate to enter the Yojayana Bhavan in Delhi's high security zone to meet the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia but it does not mean that the Delhi police should leave their security to chance. Through whichever gate the WB CM Mamata Bannerjee and entourage were entering the Yojna Bhavan, there must also have been full proof security. It is also open to all that both the CPI(M) and TMC cadres are blood thirsty of each other. The recent incident of the death of a SFI leader in police custody in Kolkata is still fresh. SFI leader's death has brought the two parties on the brink of an open war. Anything can happen at anytime and anywhere with the leaders of both the parties. That should have been kept in view by Delhi police while providing security to CM Bannerjee in Delhi. Mamata Bannerjee's TMC has thrown the Left bastion in West Bengal out of power after 32 years. Therefore, bitter rivalry between the two parties is natural. The violence has no place in politics. The left parties are known for practising violence for achieving their goals. Parliamentary democracy does permit violence of any type. It is natural that there is anger among Left cadres at the death of their young student leader but it does not give them permission to resort to manhandling of their state's CM and ministers in the national capital Delhi. The way Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was gheraoed and her Finance Minister, Amit Mitra, heckled by Left activists outside the Planning Commission's office in New Delhi makes our democratic system and cultured uncivilized and barbaric. Trinamool Congress workers have also retaliated by unleashing violence in West Bengal. At least two former CPM ministers were attacked and over a hundred CPM district and zonal party offices were torched, according to reports. This cycle of violence must stop and all disputes must be resolved through talks and dialogues in a complete democratic way.