Haphazard views : A snooping psyche dissected

Never before have I seen a Chief Minister, or any minister for that matter
taking as big a political risk as West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is taking.
In fact, if looked at it more thoughfully, it's not just big, it's a rather immense political risk to be taken.
He has still not given up on his totally anti-Marxist drive for industrialization in WB.
And we have to keep in mind that he has nothing to gain and everything to lose in doing so.
He has since long rightly realized that with the growing population and unemployment, agriculture can not be the only way of generating revenues in the state. Industrialization is a must. One needs to have foresight and enough grey matter in the head to think rationally
and realize this.

The benefit of industrialisation will definitely be forthcoming but certainly not immediately. In the next decade or so, the results of industrialization will show up.
The way CPI(M) is loosing popularity in rural WB, they might not be around to see how well Buddhadeb's good work and foresight have paid off. The benefits
may well be reaped by the overtly irritating and angry-with-everybody Mamata Banerjee.
And, nobody knows that better than Buddha himself. In spite of that he is persuing
his honest effort. Very few Politicians in India will do that. He could have just kept silent and agreed to do whatever would have please everybody. That would have been the best way to cling on to the power.




The Nandigram fiasco was triggered by the Singur incident. The
easiest and most politically correct way out for Buddha would have been
to give in to the demands of Mamata and her bunch of goons by asking
the Tatas to shift their factory elsewhere and virtually put a full-stop to the project.
No Singur would have meant no Nandigram. This way he could have retained the
rural base of his party. Everybody would have said that he has tried but
failed due to irresponsible opposition and no support from anybody.
Everything would have been hunky-dory for him. In fact, his predecessor precisely
had done exactly that for WB and managed to cling on to power for nearly three
decades.

But Buddha has chosen the hard way.


It's very disppointing and disheartening to see intellectual giants, stalwarts and
quite a number of other eminent personalities criticizing Buddha.

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