Even without taking shelter under any political tutelage, it can be safely said that what happened yesterday at West Bengal Assembly is nothing less than SHAME. If not the rampage, it’s the audacity that such things can indeed happen that takes one’s breadth away.
It’s easy to coin words like ‘attack on democracy’, but if you pause for a moment and think afresh, you’ll find the words come to mind again and again. Do we care for democracy? There are many examples that we do, and there are equally many that we don’t. But to think of desecrating the epitome of people’s power…! It defies sanity, and so it’s nothing but SHAME.
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