A recent show on CNN-IBN ,basically a question and answer show with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee fondly called "Didi" was hilarious. The "Poriborton" girl of India started off well with some choice mass dialogues. A few rounds into the questions and asnwers became a little too standard - "These questions are not questions. These are Maoist questions. You belong to CPM Cadre".
Kind of funny considering most were after all students from universities like Jadhavpur or Presidency but well a maoist is a maoist. And did you know the word Vanish means differently in TMC code book. It actually means ' A plot by CPM-Maoist combined to Kill the great leader of democracy - Didi '. And then something that got,to use the frequently used phrase - TRP soaring high, she walked out of the Town Hall (where the show was being recorded).
Somehow after all this the surprise factor was missing. Mamata Banerjee has shown a kind of characteristic of the major female politicians - Dictatorship. Be it Indira or Maya or Jaya they just hate dissent. Mamta just joined an already well established group. A cartoon is a CPM/Maoist conspiracy, a woman raped is CPM/Maoist conspiracy, an activist movement is CPM/Maoist conspiracy. After all what else can they be????? I guess even FDI is CPM/Maoist conspiracy!
Sad for Bengal though but great fot TV. And I watch TV.
Kind of funny considering most were after all students from universities like Jadhavpur or Presidency but well a maoist is a maoist. And did you know the word Vanish means differently in TMC code book. It actually means ' A plot by CPM-Maoist combined to Kill the great leader of democracy - Didi '. And then something that got,to use the frequently used phrase - TRP soaring high, she walked out of the Town Hall (where the show was being recorded).
Somehow after all this the surprise factor was missing. Mamata Banerjee has shown a kind of characteristic of the major female politicians - Dictatorship. Be it Indira or Maya or Jaya they just hate dissent. Mamta just joined an already well established group. A cartoon is a CPM/Maoist conspiracy, a woman raped is CPM/Maoist conspiracy, an activist movement is CPM/Maoist conspiracy. After all what else can they be????? I guess even FDI is CPM/Maoist conspiracy!
Sad for Bengal though but great fot TV. And I watch TV.
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