BJP and TMC leadership should show brave heart to shun violence in West Bengal

The general elections are over and a new government is also in place at the centre though having repeated for the second time in succession with charismatic Narendra Modi as its prime minister again.

Despite all this, the political confrontation and subsequent voilence with number of killings of political workers of both TMC and BJP in West Bengal is going on unabated.

Never ever in the recent past has such a strong violence sequence experienced in any state of the country though naxalite violence and terror deaths are the order of the day in strife torn Kashmir and various naxalite infested states of the country viz Gadh Chiroli in Maharashtra, Jharkand, Daantvada Chattisgarh and in Odissa etc.

The violence of West Bengal with the use of lethal weapons and bombs by political workers and leaders of both BJP and TMC to wrest power from each other and incessant accusations against each other involving the West Bengal CM and the BJP chief Amit Shah even prime minister had hyped the election in West Bengal with the print and electronics media repeatedly showing the violence .

The Bhartiya Janata Party which had merely two MPs after 2014 elections has invaded the strong hold of ruling TMC and wrested 18 seats from Mamata Bannerji’s party with increase in its vote share to 40%.

This has infact made her extremely angered and furious. There was the time when Bengal was ruled by communists for more than three decades with veteran late Jyoti Basu as the longest serving chief minister.

The CPM led left front government under Jyoti Basu ruled the state for protracted 3 decades .

TMC’s Mamata Bannerjee wrested power from the CPM and is the chief minister of West Bengal for the last ten years.

Mamata deedi as she is fondly addressed by one and all, even prime minister Narendra Modi has casted serious aspersions on the prime minister during the election campaigning and even went to the extent of saying that she will send her the ladoos of the dust of West Bengal to which the prime minister responded in all humility saying that he is humbly waiting for her mud ladoos.

Today even after the completion of the elections in West Bengal violence between the TMC and BJP workers is still going unabated.

The situation has deteriorated to such an aweful extent that the state’s governor Kesri Nath Tripathi has also expressed his serious concern and regret over the increasing incidents of killings of political workers through hurling of bombs saying that the situation has warranted the intervention of the central government indicating that if the violence and killings are not stopped in the state he may even think of recommending for imposition of president’s rule in the state. He also met the union Home Minister Anit Shah to post him about the latest violence and kilkings of BJP workers in the state. On being asked by mediamen he however termed it as a mere courtsey call.

Meanwhile the former TMC MP, now in Bhartiya Janata Party and Mamata’s arch rival Mukul Roy has shot a letter to the union home minister Amit Shah accusing the state chief minister Mamata Benerjee aka Deedi for instigating clashes in North 24 Parganas, Sandesh Khali on Saturday where three people belonging to BJP died.

Mukul Roy said there is complete anarchy and chaos in the state where the state machinery and the police force are being pre strategically misused to kill the BJP workers.

Mukul Roy demanded registration of a First information Report against the West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for instigating violence in the state.

Roy also demanded investigation into the violence by anti terror agency NIA.

The blame game between the TMC and the BJP continued after the Saturdays Basirhaat killings.

The West Bengal chief minister Mamata Bannerjee on the other hand blamed the ruling BJP of lynching the TMC workers and assured the populace that she is fully committed to rescue the minorities in her state from the alleged attacks of Hindu chauvinists even if she has to lose power.

She said that she has been struggling for decades and she never longed for power.

Sheasked the people : should she drive muslims out of the state? She will never do so even if she has to lose power and the seat of the chief minister ?

It may be recalled that approximately more than 40 workers of Trinamool Congress and BJP has died in violence and clashes during and after the elections in Bengal.

The deads include people from the minority as well as majority communities.

However, time has come now that both the BJP and the Trinamool Congress should shun violence in West Bengal and pave the way for the peace, tranquility and communal harmony to prevail.

The laws of the land and our constitution has no place for violence and killings in the society.

The political leadership of both, BJP and Trinamool Congress should give priority to the state’s overall welfare, development and well being of the people, instead of involving themselves in the practice of sheer vandetta.

Democracy believes in peaceful and constitutional change of power through mandate and the peoples’ mandate demands peace, tranquility, harmony, amity and brotherhood to prevail.

It’s finally the peaceful environment that can guarantee the safety and security of the electorates thereby pedalling the state on the path of progress and prosperity.

Since now the BJP led NDA has acknowleged a landslide mandate including 18 seats and 40% of the large vote share in West Bengal and power at the centre for the second term in succession, it should exhibit a large heart by delivering to the people of the state most earnestly and with transparency instead of keeping the confrontation alive with the government of West Bengal led by TMC chief Mamata Banerjee.

After all prime minister Narendra Modi has said in several of his post election thanks giving public meetings across India that even those who were opposed to him during the elections are his friends now, not foes and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, all are one.

Then why the confrontation with political adversary? Why not to show a broad heart and perspective ? What’s your take friends?