Meaning Of Stir in Bengal’s politics, Political Violence At Its Peak

Meaning of stir in Bengal’s politics, political violence at its peak. It is often said that what Bengal thinks today, the country thinks after it.

So, know that this will happen in Bengal before the next year’s assembly elections, which would not have been imagined by political pundits.

Currently, political violence in Bengal is at its peak and will increase further. Two years ago, when more than 100 people were killed in the 2018 Gram Panchayat elections.

Most of the killings were committed by activists of opposition parties in the state.

The fear of fear in the Gram Panchayat elections was such that the Congress, BJP, and CPM candidates did not even file against the Trinamool candidates.

In South Bengal, Trinamool candidates won uncontested in about 15 percent of the seats.

A large number of voters in Bengal remained fear-free in the 2019 parliamentary elections compared to the 2014 Lok Sabha and 2016 assembly elections.

Central paramilitary forces foiled the intentions of the miscreants. At the same time, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had alleged that the soldiers of the central security forces threaten their supporters.

Meaning of stir in Bengal’s politics: During the Lok Sabha elections last year, there was an opportunity to visit Nandigram in East Midnapore.

There was a sense of political rivalry that there was no poster of any parties other than the ruling Trinamool Congress in the whole region.

After twelve years in April 2019, CPM office was opened in Nandigram. But the next day, Trinamool Congress workers flooded the party office with black flags.

The politics of violence in Bengal started by the Left parties is at the same point as the Trinamool Congress.

Just like the atmosphere of fear in Nandigram and Singur, the same panic was during the communist government.

Handling power through violence is not easy: Getting power through violence is like riding a lion. The communist government in West Bengal has experienced this reality.

But surprisingly, Banerjee, who runs a campaign against the violence of the Left parties, is instigating it rather than controlling political violence.

The phase of violent politics in West Bengal began in the seventh-eighth decade of the last century. But the situation in the Trinamool Congress government has become more frightening.

Here BJP is getting the support of those who were once traditional voters of CPM and Trinamool Congress.

The main contest in the 2011 assembly elections was between the Trinamool Congress and the CPM. In the 2016 assembly elections, Trinamool won 211 seats out of 294 seats in the state.

TMC got 44.9 percent votes, while the Left-Congress alliance got 26.3 percent votes. The BJP won only three seats in this election.

But in the 2016 election, the party got 10.1 percent votes, which was 6.1 percent more than in the 2011 assembly elections.

However, in the 2014 assembly by-elections, the BJP managed to win from Basirhat South.