The elections are on 27th April and the verdict is already out....Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress looks likely to form the government after 34 years of Communist Rule.34 years is a longtime and at least in Bengal its showing.
The roads look like a stone littered shard of walkway thatz likely to break life or limb at any moment!Industry-all units shut and highrise apartments taking their place,traffic so murderous that venturing out of your house without insurance is an insanity!
The Royal Bengal Tiger has been mewling for the previous 5 years.But if you think that the alternative is something to get excited about,you have another thing coming.
Leaving behind grease paint and the arc lights a horde of actors have taken on themselves the burden of leading Bengal from Darkness into Light(lines from either De Rozio of Rabindranath Tagore).In this time of change the new leadership hardly has any known leadership skills other than the oratory of Mamata Banerjee.
I would be surprised if the new rulers of Bengal can last the next 5 years.There is no seasoned administrator and I expect more vendetta(that would probably put the Sicilians to shame),filling of party coffers and a general air of utter confusion.
I am tempted to look back on the illustrious history of this Great State but I will not allow any undue expectations to myself least I feel more disappointed than when I am writing this piece.
I hope to read this after 5 years and be Positively surprised!!
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