Society is in peril when leaders use unparliamentarily language in public

Bengal is passing through difficult times. Charges of corruption against political leaders is not new but these have been rocking the scenario in Bengal. First, it was Parthha Chatterjeee, a minister who is believed to have minted a fortune. He was an influential leader of the Trinamool Congress and used to be close to a film actress Arpita Banerjee of Tollywood. Both came under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate and are presently in jail. He lost his ministerial berth and many other portfolios. He was a minister but the party did not stand by him. Its suoremo Mamata Banerjee threw him to the wolves. Then the cattle smuggling racket came to the forefront. This time it was the Central Bureau of Invetigation at work. Here, Anubrata Mondal, another heavyweight of the same party was involved. This person loved to use unparliamentarily language in public. Moreover, he enjoyed the blessings of Mamata Banerjee the party supremo. In fact, she came out openly in his support. That changed the equation. As protests over corruption grow in Bengal, more Trinamool leaders began to use threatening language. Emboldened by her open support to Anubrata, another Trinamool leader used unparliamentarily language in public. The worst part is that this leader Saugata Roy was a retired physics professor in a college and well educated. People held him in high esteem. It was strange to hear such an educated person speak in an uncouth language and utter such words.

There have been earlier instances of leaders using filthy language. It hurts society when well-educated and apparently genteel leaders use threatening language. Kalyan Banerjee, a senior counsel of the Calcutta High Court, hurled intimidating abuses from a public rally recently in Hooghly district. He said - “If Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee are maligned, the opposition parties will be beaten up.” Then there was Madan Mitra, another Trinamool Congress legislator who advised his followers to practice stick combats and set up special centers for training. He even promised to supply the sticks.

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Three cheers for Didi – the Jill of all trades (satire)

Didi is a unique leader and has no parallel – she is a wonderful orator, she can paint rosy pictures sitting on the dais, she can swing votes in her favor, she can sing songs for almost any occasion – she is, in short, the Jill of all trades.
Suddenly her smartphone rang – it was Moo Cool, her trusted lieutenant.
‘Yes,’ her voice sounded tired. She had just returned to her office after inaugurating one dozen Durga pujas that evening.
‘I know you are famished, ‘Moo Cool was apologetic. ‘But – there is one more inauguration.’
‘But I have completed the schedule for the day,’ Didi was irritated.
‘This is not a puja but a toy train.’
‘In Darjeeling?’
‘No. In one of the pandals. You have inaugurated the puja but missed out the toy train. And – the kids are crying. They are waiting in queue and want you in the driver’s seat.’

Didi sighed.
She could not antagonize the kids. They were the future. Who knows, one of them could very well become her Nemesis and the reason for her downfall.
This Durga Puja had been hectic for her. All her fans wanted her to inaugurate the pujas and she did not have the heart to refuse. The popularity of movie stars faded when she came on the stage. And Tollywood had accepted the fate.
Didi had accommodated many of them into her menagerie and had never worried about the age factor. There were those bent down by age alongside the youth bubbling with energy. To her, the ability to draw crowds was what mattered.
As her car moved towards the venue, she remembered that she has yet to paint more pictures, sell them and make money to bring the Eiffel Tower into Kolkata. She had already brought the Big Ben and the London Eye was on its way. Now, it was the turn of the Eiffel Tower.
That was the feedback from the social media circuit as confirmed by Dee Wreck – he managed her internet interaction.
She was the only woman leader who could paint, write poems, sing, and walk – and hold the stage on her own. She could hold her audience spellbound with her oratory powers. She was, in essence, a Jill of all trades. (to be continued …)


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