Bengal has no Anil Sarkar but Ruling Marxist Brahminical Hegemony is all set to repeat a Tripura in West Bengal
Ruling Left Front in Tripura romped home with Land slide Voctory in Assembly Polls 2008.The Left cemented its power in Tripura by sweeping away the opposition. The Congress which was on a losing streak in assembly elections, it seems has Meghalaya as a consolation.
Anil Sarkar , contacted, expressed satisfaction that his Cultural Trump Card did the wonders. Sarkar had claimed that Left Front will win fifty seats this time. The poet, Dalit thinker kept his word very well. He led the election campaign for Manik sarkar, the Poster Boy, from the front. In last election also, Anil sarkar used, namoshudra community as his Vote bank Base. The Namoshudra supporters of religious leader Thakur Anukul chandra voted for CPIM en Block last time.
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Ruling Left Front in Tripura romped home with Land slide Voctory in Assembly Polls 2008.The Left cemented its power in Tripura by sweeping away the opposition. The Congress which was on a losing streak in assembly elections, it seems has Meghalaya as a consolation. Anil Sarkar , contacted, expressed satisfaction that his Cultural Trump Card did the wonders. Sarkar had claimed that Left Front will win fifty seats this time. The poet, Dalit thinker kept his word very well. He led the election campaign for Manik sarkar, the Poster Boy, from the front. In last election also, Anil sarkar used, namoshudra community as his Vote bank Base. The Namoshudra supporters of religious leader Thakur Anukul chandra voted for CPIM en Block last time.
As singur and Nandigram insurrections diluted and Rizwan love tragedy plus Ration riots subverted, it is quite evident that the Tripura Experimant might prove to be Dress Rehersal for West Bengal elections. Despite reckless Genocide in Marichjhanpi way back in January, 1979.. Ruling Left Front and specifically CPIM has used the East Bengal dalit Vote Bank with great solidarity. The result may not be different this time with disillusioned Muslim Vote bank as CPIM played Taslima Card very well. Modi`s Majority psyche is translated well in Minorty psyche in West Bengal. But this Bengal Kerala centred Marxist strategy proves to be the greatest hinderance for escalation of Communist movement and party base in rest of the country! Anil Sarkar is not projected as National leader as the Brahmins from Bengal and Kerala. Women of substance, Brinda Karat and subhashini Ali had all the potential to lead the marxist right into the heart of North India. But the Marxists negelected the Women as well as dalits in Hindi heartland. Thus, the Dalit Movement is hijacked by corrupt socialists, Gandhians, lohiates and ambedkarites for personal gain and The marxist Dalit Agenda remains in deep freeze!
The Marxists are trying their best to mobilise the Dalit partition victim east bengal refugees settled countrywide. But after Marichjhanpi experience the refugees won`t believe the marxists! Moreover, it is always better for them to support local power equations just for the sake of existence, life and livelihood. Marxists, despite the false claim of Refugee movement failed pathetically to defend citizenship, human right and civil right, cultural identity, life and livelihood of this lot. More over, the Marxists supported Lal Krishna adwani and Pranab Mukherjee to deprive them of Citizenship with passing Citizenship Amendment act and then, launching a nationwide deportation drive.
SEZ drive in West Bengal and indiscriminate urbanisation and industrialisation with Marxist Capitalist developmwent Agenda, chemical hubs, nuclear plant, retail chain and so on, the Regemnted Ruling Brahminical Hegemony has targeted the SC, ST and minorities most. Tripura is spared just lack of interest from corporates, lack of connectivity and backwardness. Thus, the party is successful to hold the Power base with a powerful dalit Leader like anil Sarkar. In West Bengal, Marxists have no Anil Sarkar. They had to use a minno like Shubhendu Maity to hold on SC ST Vote Bank and expelled Taslima Nasrin for appeasement of Muslim vote Bank. Kanti Biswas, Ashim Bala or Basudeb Barman , none of them have any influence without their respective status. Kanti Biswas has been ousted fro ministery and he has lost the magic touch. Basudeb Barman led the Dalit Samanyay Samiti. Becoming a MP, the ex Vice chanchellor form Kalyani University has no time for Dalit Movement. Neither he succeded to lodge his presence in the Parliament. Dalit Samanyaya samiti is now looked after by ministers Bilasi Bala Sahis and Ex minister Upen Kisku with Calcutta university deputy registrar Dr Nitish Biswas, a novelist Kapil Krishna Thakur and a lecturerer in Rabindra Bharati, Ashish sana without any impact. The crowd gatherd is cosisted of promotion, posting, appointment, favour seeking elite Dalits and tribals. It lacks the dash, the commitment as well.
It is true that the Rightists or Centrist Brahminical hegemony supported by so called scented Civil Society and opportunist Intelligentsia may not prove to be an alternative of the Left Front as Mamata Bannerjee might prove worse autocrate! Marxist bank on the discredited MS Mamta Bannerjee and a Pet PCC led by the comradors like Pranab Mukherjee, the defacto Prime minister and Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi. The opposition has not any organisation nor any ideology. It remains unilateral sucess story of the Ruling Marxist Brahminical hegemony!
I have already written : Our best friend and philosopher in North East, the poet and dalit thinker, a Marxist minister in Tripura Left front minister, Anil Sarkar has played the Cultural trump Card most effectively in Assembly Votes. We will know the results on 7th March. Sarkar, who has become quite a rebel in Marxist ruling Hegemony after writing poetry on Mayawati, claims that the Marxists will romp home with landslide victory. He has been talking on phone all these days despite our stance against Nandigram and Singur. He always refrined to comment on West bengal or Kerala. But he, at the same time, tries his level best to differentiate Tripura from other two left ruled states.He told me that all prdictions would go wrong and Congress has no scope to get new grownd in West Bengal. According to Sarkar, in fact, Congress will lose some more seats this time despite forward Block factor. He described the phenomenon as the Political Will Power of chief Minister Manik Sarkar to sustain peace, law and order - mass mobilisation of Anil sarkar - and Party Organisation set up. Sarkar said that he never tried to politicalise his election campain but he tried his election campaign as mass mobilisation with Cultural Dimensions all the way. And, thus, Patriotic Songs, Poems Dominated Tripura Poll Campaign !
I have written on Anil sarkar`s philosophy of Love against insurgency in North east which is strikingly different from Delhi`s Mannerism to address nationality problem with all the Guns of State Power! Rather, the Marxist Minister, who had been instrumental to set up CPIM`s political dalit agenda and has the key role to mobilise the Dalit Bengali Refugees scattered countrywide as CPIM`s Vote bank, tries to go back the cultural roots to solve the Identity Crisis of nationalities. Tripura is an example of Co existance of SC Bengal Ruling Hegemony with tribal identity.
Patriotic and modern songs, street plays, poems and colourful decorations using small trees were the highlights in the run-up to Saturday's assembly elections in Tripura, thanks to the Marxist dalit Minister. Moreover, Both the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the main opposition Congress had organised poll campaigns using colourfully decorated vehicles draped with party flags and festoons. Quite different from rest of the country. We witness the dirty game of Vote bank in mainland as Raj Thackeray and later, his mentor Bal Thakeray launched a campaign against Hindi Speaking People in Maharashtra. It is vice versa in North India. Even in West Bengal , the Marxist ruling Brahminical hegemony banks on rearrangement of demography for vote Bank consolidation!
Anil sarkar told me, ` i was not tense anyway and I enjoyed this Election as a Cultural Progrramme! I am not well and I had sound sleep all the way!”
'Our campaign with the versatile cultural performance has largely impacted the minds of the people and we have succeeded in winning the hearts of voters by using cultural presentation,' said state Information and Cultural Minister Anil Sarkar.
Anil Sarkar has focused on dalit movement. He is leading Ambedkar Missions in North east and east india. he is behind the Dalit Co Ordination Committe in West Bengal. he leads the dalit sahitya movement. He arranges book Fairs and folk festivals. He practices Politics with cultural recipe! Last year he organised Grand Baul Mela in ADC tribal area of Tripura. He prescribes Vaishnav Love to deal with insurgency and extremism!
Anil Sarkar holds Information and Culture, Tourism and SC welfare portfolios in the Cabinet. banking on these low profile portfolios Anil sarkar in his indigenous spectacular mannerism and folk based political rehtorics is well capable to interact on the on hand with all states and nationalities in North eats and on the other hand demolish Extrism in Tripura. Thus, the chief Minister manik sarkar is unable to get an alternative of Anil Sarkar who has been successful to use language, dilects, folk, music, dance,literature , dalit movement, Ambedkar, tagore, mayawati, refugees and nationalities as political tools in favour of the ruling Left front!
The CPI(M) on Friday said the party's victory in Tripura was a rejection of the economic policies being followed by the Congress-led Government at the Centre by the people of the state.
Congratulating all party workers on the victory, CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said with this victory, the Left Front has achieved a hat-trick of wins in three states -- Tripura, West Bengal and Kerala.
"The economic policies being followed by the Congress-led government at the Centre has been rejected by the people of Tripura," he said.
Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechuri, said "where we are in power, anti-incumbency does not work. In fact what works is pro-incumbency and that is it. And this is precisely the message people are continuously giving".
In a statement, CPI(M) Central Committee congratulated the people of Tripura for "creating history" by electing the Left Front for the fourth time.
"Due to the outstanding record of the Left Front government, all sections of the working people, tribal and non-tribal and even Congress sympathisers have supported the party.
"The people have rejected the opportunist alliance of the Congress with the extremist INPT," the statement said.
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Friday, March 7, 2008 (Agartala)
The Left cemented its power in Tripura by sweeping away the opposition. The Congress which was on a losing streak in assembly elections, it seems has Meghalaya as a consolation.
Manik Sarkar has been chief minister of Tripura for the last 10-years and is still going strong, the Left's poster boy in the northeast state led the Reds to a resounding victory.
In the 60-member Assembly, the Left block won 49 seats, anti-incumbency obviously doesn't work for this chief minister.
''My main task will be poverty alleviation, without that all talk of development is empty,'' said Manik Sarkar, Chief Minister, Tripura.
Across the hills, after the Tripura collapse there is a sense of relief for the Congress, which emerged as the single largest party in Meghalaya.
However, it will need the support of smaller regional parties and independents to form the government.
But the face of Meghalaya in national politics, P A Sangma couldn't make any impact beyond his stronghold in the Garo Hills. Everywhere else, the NCP didn't win a single seat.
''It's a mixed verdict in Meghalaya, we never think alike and all the tribes have their own priorities. In this election also it is constituency oriented not state oriented, and that's a disappointment. There will be a big role for smaller parties, there is no option but a coalition,'' said Manas Chaudhuri, Independent Candidate.
The Tripura story is over, but in Meghalaya it's probably just begun. After cobbling the numbers, the Congress will also have to figure out who will be the next chief minister without too many battles.
Red march in Tripura, hung House in Meghalaya
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Published on Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 22:32, Updated at Fri, Mar 07, 2008 in Nation section
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New Delhi: The reds are on the march in Tripura once again. The CPI-M has retained power in the state for a fourth consecutive term, this time with an even more emphatic victory.
The Congress had its top leadership — including Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh — to campaign in the state, but the Left's support base remained untouched.
"Where we are in power, anti-incumbency doesn't work. In fact what works is pro-incumbency," CPI (M) politburo member Sitaram Yechury said in his first reaction on the verdict in Tripura.
But the Congress had reasons to smile in Meghalaya. In a state which has seen 18 governments in 36 years, the party finished a couple of seats short of a clear majority, improving its performance from 2003.
The real setback was for the NCP, whose leader PA Sangma's dream of coming to power was shattered by an impressive show of the Congress.
With Sangma finishing a poor third, the focus now shifts to the battle for the chief ministership within the Congress with at least half-a-dozen aspirants vying for the post.
While the Congress celebrates in Shillong and the Left in Tripura, the Northeast seems to have given some indications that its voters want stability and continuity, which is a marked departure from the anti-incumbency politics that has marked state elections in other parts of the country.
"We have proved to the people that the people of Meghalaya are satisfied with the government of the Congress in the last five years," Meghalaya State Congress President O L Nongtdu
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“I had tried to seek a middle path, asking for an autonomous council under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution but it has been delayed for two years,” said Ghisingh at a guest house in Siliguri town. Now the GNLF will revert to the statehood demand, he told mediapersons.
Asked whom should the Centre and the state governments talk to, since the issue of separate Gorkhaland had been raised by the Darjeeling Gorkha Janamukti Morcha as well, Ghisingh replied: “Now they should talk to all quarters who have raised this demand.”
Meanwhile, Janamukti Morcha leaders met Congress President Sonia Gandhi, BJP leaders L K Advani and Rajnath Singh in New Delhi during the day and submitted memoranda. The party is demanding statehood for Darjeeling, comprising the three existing hill sub divisions, parts of Siliguri and Terai, and a part of the Dooars region inhabited by Nepalis. Talking to The Indian Express, Roshan Giri, a spokesman for the Morcha, said the leaders gave a “patient hearing to our views and demands. We are hopeful that the sentiments of the hill people would be honoured.”
Meanwhile, in the hills, the Morcha unofficially sponsored an alternate hourly bandh on Thursday to prevent Ghisingh from going up to the hills even as he returned to Siliguri after staying a week in Kolkata and later in New Delhi.
Asked about his promise to step down by March 10, Ghisingh said he wanted to do so from Lal Kothi but he might do that from Siliguri or any other place.
