02 Dec 2020  |   04:54am IST

Vikas and ‘vikas’!

Vikas and ‘vikas’!

Kajal Chatterjee

With West Bengal Assembly elections knocking at the door, the Who's Who of BJP are immersed in the dream of conquering the "last frontier"; the state of affairs of rest of the nation or repercussion of the pandemic upon national economy being the last thought invading their minds! And to meet their desired end, the saffronites are harping on mainly two issues -- "collapsed" law and order of Bengal and "laggardness" of "Kangal Bangal"!

Let few examples of "glorious" record of BJP governance be taken from just two States only -- Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat as leaders associated with these States take the major lead in lambasting Bengal in front of the whole country! 

The chilling dastardly gangrape in Unnao and Hathras along with murder of Bulandshahr Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh by alleged lovers of "Gomata" and that of 8 police officials (in one go) by ganglord Vikas Dubey in Uttar Pradesh perhaps point out the "impeccable" law and order of the State under BJP government! And what about the murders or physical assaults in Gujarat if a Dalit dares to sport a moustache, ride a horse , views a Dandiya/Garba performance with the mass beating of Dalits in Una taking the cake!

 "Bangal" is definitely "Kangal" due to "misgovernance" of Mamata Banerjee and her TMC regime! So a "double engine" is urgently required for West Bengal for its "development" and to ensure it, a BJP governed administration is urgently required to be placed at Kolkata which will enjoy all the blessings of "Good Days" regime of New Delhi!

But Uttar Pradesh is definitely "roaring" under the impact of "double engine" since 2017 added with 6 years of "Good Days" at the Centre with none other than the Prime minister of India representing the state with Varanasi "blessed" with "additional bonus" of having him as MP!

 Yet today the situation comes at such a pass that each time Narendra Modi visits Varanasi, the administration of the city jumps in "war-like" situation to clear it of slums, destroying the huts of the poor and displacing them! So is this the specimen of much zealously hyped "Vikas" which have been achieved in "New India"! The person party or regime, which cannot make a mere city "Sonar"(golden) despite its high profile status and zooming on "double engine", dare to transform the whole of "Kangal Bangal" into "Sonar"! What better can be expected from those who have to build that "Trump Wall" overnight to hide the "unique development" of Ahmedabad from the eyes of the USA President! What a glorious feather in the cap of the showpiece city of Prime minister's home state which is being governed by BJP since almost two decades with Modi having served as its Chief minister for more than a decade! If sweeping the failures of stark poverty and hopelessness under the carpet or behind the wall forms the "role model of development", may God save "Kangal Bangal" from such a "role model"!

 However evicting slum dwellers or hiding them behind long high "Trump Wall" cannot save the day on each occasion and so despite attempting the best to hide the stark grim reality, the "beans" of "Vikas" got scandalously spilled when millions of poorest of poor had to undergo "Long March" through highways and railway tracks of India since months following instant lockdown.

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