What will be tomorrow’s headline? Pyongyang’s nuclear test or Trinamool’s Bangla Bandh? It’ll be a close call between the two. To an objective mind, there would appear some common ground between the two. Both are regressive, both are aimed to launch tough bargaining.
Leaving North Korea’s test to experts (which clearly I’m not), let me dwell on today’s bandh. We’ve heard many a sane voice that forced work stoppages of any sort will be detrimental to state’s interest, since large investors who are flocking in will not like to face animosity for all they want to do with their moneybags.
It is unfortunate that the political class in Bengal has never been able to rise above petty considerations to work for the betterment of the state. The situation repeats what we have seen in earlier decades, except that the role is now reversed.
Let didi’s gain be not state’s loss
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Several huge investments – mostly in infrastructure – are waiting in the wings to happen. It goes without saying that these have potential to put Bengal onto fast lane of progress. Given the muddying all around, whether and how the scene unfolds is something many are watching with bated breadth. Let good sense prevail.
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