Not much is known about the Marichjhapi massacre that took place under the Jyoti Basu government on a tiny island in the Sundarbans where Hindu refugees had settled.
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
1. Who is to be blamed for possible route of CPI(M) in 2019 Lok Sabha election? Answer is obvious: the party stalwarts who miserably failed to see writing on the wall. 2. It is absolutely clear that the Communists in general and CPI(M) in particular have lost touch with voters and hence their immediate future is bleak. 3. It is clear that citizen-voters have rejected CPI(M), and that too even in States where it was in power for decades. Hence, question that needs to be asked is how relevant is politics of the Communists in general, and that of CPI(M) in particular, today? 4. One cannot forget that the Leftists parties, and mainly the CPI(M), were rejected by voters in West Bengal (WB) in two consecutive State Assembly elections and in Tripura last year. Have they learnt any lesson? 5. In WB the leftists were in power for almost three decades but still their government was overthrown. Fact is that the state of WB remained an industrially backward state. Smt Mamata Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress saw an opportunity in WB by exposing hollowness of leftists’ ideology. In Tripura BJP’s rightist ideology succeeded in exposing leftists’ ideology. 6. We, the citizen-voters, really wish that Communists, and CPI(M) in particular, would do some self-examination and seriously reconsider their political as also economic agenda. Our democracy needs dissent and dissent of the Leftists is a must for healthy democracy.
Smt Mamata Bannerjee indeed has been following the footprints of her predecessors’
So her time seems marked and limited.
1. Who is to be blamed for possible route of CPI(M) in 2019 Lok Sabha election? Answer is obvious: the party stalwarts who miserably failed to see writing on the wall. 2. It is absolutely clear that the Communists in general and CPI(M) in particular have lost touch with voters and hence their immediate future is bleak. 3. It is clear that citizen-voters have rejected CPI(M), and that too even in States where it was in power for decades. Hence, question that needs to be asked is how relevant is politics of the Communists in general, and that of CPI(M) in particular, today? 4. One cannot forget that the Leftists parties, and mainly the CPI(M), were rejected by voters in West Bengal (WB) in two consecutive State Assembly elections and in Tripura last year. Have they learnt any lesson? 5. In WB the leftists were in power for almost three decades but still their government was overthrown. Fact is that the state of WB remained an industrially backward state. Smt Mamata Bannerjee’s Trinamool Congress saw an opportunity in WB by exposing hollowness of leftists’ ideology. In Tripura BJP’s rightist ideology succeeded in exposing leftists’ ideology. 6. We, the citizen-voters, really wish that Communists, and CPI(M) in particular, would do some self-examination and seriously reconsider their political as also economic agenda. Our democracy needs dissent and dissent of the Leftists is a must for healthy democracy.