THE eruption of civil violence in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal targeting leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is the outcome of the terribly divisive politics the ruling party has been indulging in for years. As the whole nation asks for President's Rule in the State for clear and organised or TMC-sponsored failure of law and order, the issue of bad governance comes to fore, crying itself hoarse for immediate steps to correct the terribly-wronged situation. For, by now, the nation has realised fully that Trinamool Congress supremo Ms. Mamata Banerjee is no longer admired as a people's heroine working tirelessly for the good of the oppressed masses. Much to the contrary, she has emerged as a character who appears to rejoice in common people’s trauma.

 

Whatever is happening, therefore, in West Bengal is an authentic creation of Madam Banerjee and her TMC. Noticing the decline of public order in West Bengal, countless numbers of persons of eminence have been asking for strict steps -- including imposition of Central rule -- so as to curb the bad practices of the TMC and its masterminds. Though the Central Government appears to be pondering over the situation, the nation sees the end of its infatuation with Ms. Mamata Banerjee’s way of doing politics. For, in the past few years, she has emerged as a voice of what can be understood as anti-India thought. When she started her fight against the Left Front rule in West Bengal two decades ago, Ms. Banerjee was considered to be the kind of leader the nation needed. When she won elections one after another for 15 years, people still considered her to be a leader of merit. The picture, however, changed drastically in the past few years when the feisty CM started abusing power to remain in power.

 

The current condition is a terrible manifestation of that syndrome. No matter the details, West Bengal needs an immediate redemption from the current condition. There is every reason to believe that the ensuing Lok Sabha elections may alter the picture altogether and herald a future ouster of the TMC and its leader. For, even in the Opposition camp, the TMC appears to have got isolated to certain extent. In the electoral politics, Ms. Banerjee may score a few victories, all right, but enough indications are available to expect a transfer-scene in West Bengal politics. And that would be the condition of TMC’s own creation. For, when a political outfit decides to outdo itself through its own wrong thought and action, then no one can save the situation. One of the worst ill-effects of the TMC rule in West Bengal is the refusal of the TMC Government to extend federal cooperation to the Central Government. Time and again, Ms. Banerjee refused to see sense in federalism and kept driving an anti-Centre politics so that the credit of developmental ideation would not pass to the Centre led by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi. That was, of course, unfortunate but the West Bengal CM did not see it that way. She kept blocking every central move and kept insisting that Mr. Modi was the worst thing to happen to the country. That political narrative, without doubt, has gone against her and her party is continuously losing ground politically and socially. The eruption of civil retaliation in Sandeshkhali is the outcome of the dirty political narrative TMC tried to set in. In fact, the TMC and its masterminds must feel a sense of shame that they are acting against public interest, and indulging in organised violence. But it must also be said that this approach of theirs will prove their undoing in the time to come -- may be around the general elections a few weeks from now. And in that case, only the TMC and its leader will have to be blamed -- for their own creation.