THE newly-formed West Bengal Government led by Chief Minister Mr. Suvendu Adhikari has begun a massive but most welcome process of correction of various anomalies, irregularities, criminal acts and injustice that the State saw for the fifteen years of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) party’s rule under the then Chief Minister Ms. Mamata Banerjee. Each step is going to be a separate challenge to be handled with much caution, all right. Yet, the Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues appear determined to set wrong things right through legal and constitutional processes. In some more time, the country’s common people would start witnessing the positive change the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government would bring about in West Bengal. Already good signs are becoming visible in the State. Many Hindu temples that had been closed for years are now beginning to open their doors. No religious community is going to be allowed to perform religious rituals on roads.

 

Hoards of TMC goons are being apprehended. The Adhikari Government has reopened as many as 59 cases of post-poll violence linked to 2021 Legislative elections. The West Bengal Police under the BJP rule has issued no-nonsense, omnibus directions to the people that no loud-speakers would be allowed to be used at places of worship (of all faiths) beyond a certain time-limit and beyond a certain volume limit. Strict action has been initiated against a Minister in the Mamata Banerjee Government for acts of corruption and rampant favouritism. And most importantly, the proceedings of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly are going to be telecast live -- thus leaving no scope for anybody to speculate what happened on the floor of the House. There is another area that is being set right -- the construction of the fencing on the India-Bangladesh international border spanning some 4,000-plus kilometers.

 

This project has been launched with the State Government’s order to hand over to the Central Government the border land necessary for the erection of the border fencing. This process would be over within 45 days and the construction work would begin in right earnest. In other words, right things are happening in the right manner -- in the process correcting many a wrong perpetrated by the Mamata Banerjee Government by deliberate acts of commission with strong political motivation. The Suvendu Adhikari Government has declared its clear intentions of erasing all the wrongs by the previous Government in the shortest possible time. The process is far from easy, of course. For, Chief Minister Mr. Adhikari has to counter many layers of covert international indulgence in India’s internal affairs. Of course, with the Centre’s help, all those conspiratorial machinations would be countered effectively. At every step of the way, Ms. Mamata Banerjee and her TMC are going to try to block the Government’s efforts. Attempts, too, would be made to whip up public opinion against the incumbent Government.

 

In fact, the media has begun reporting such attempts from the streets of West Bengal. No matter all that, Chief Minister Mr. Suvendu Adhikari, a bachelor by choice, is determined to effect the correction in the most no-nonsense manner. It is thus obvious that the Adhikari Government is sure-footed about its moves to erase the massive negativism of the TMC era. And as the new Government gets going on all these issue,the instructions from the Chief Minister -- that at no stage would any action be taken against anybody by violating law and rules and regulations. In other words, every corrective action must have the sanction of the law and the Constitution. A period of five years is actually not enough to achieve what the Adhikari Government has set to do. But good governance is a slow and patient process whose good effects start showing up only after the passage of some time. Mr. Suvendu Adhikari has enough patience to wait for those good moments in future. Now, the people will begin understanding the difference.