Question time, folks.
What was common to the states of Assam and West Bengal which went to the hustings earlier this month?
- Possible Answer Number 1: Those who calculatedly made the wrong alignments, forfeited their electoral fortunes.
- Possible Answer Number 2: Saffron did a fade-out: losers on either side of the chicken neck Siliguri corridor.
- Possible Answer Number 3: The Bongs from opaar-Bongland vouched for and shaped the winners.
- Possible Answer Number 4: All of the above.
If you opted for number 1, you are correct. If you chose option number 2, you are still correct. If you thought 3 is right, you are not off the mark either. But if you chose 4, you would have got all correct. (You can try for a KBC seat, some time). Actually, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out. (We know rocket scientists don't participate in KBC either).
Some people never see the writings on the wall. All they can behold is a beeeeeg stumbling block. That was what Prafulla Mahanta and Mamata Banerjee perceived, and stumbled real bad. Ouch, it hurt! You see, the myopic and the demented don't think it is foolhardily self-delusive to commit harakiri. Particularly for those whose last refuge is politics. It was the same strange bedfellows story in both states. The Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), each thought it could ride piggyback the other to Dispur. Both made porcine fools of themselves. Each of the Trinamool Congress and the Congress combine too thought once it was in Kolkata it would make an ass of the other. What asinine presumptions! Know now, why good human beings make bad politicians?
Krzystof Kieslowski could have planned a hundred-part film, if he were to see the riot of colours that elections in India regurgitate. But if he were still to go by the lowest common denominator in Assam and West Bengal, it would have been a just one colour film: saffron. A colour that shone brightly a year and more back, but was obscured this time out. No, Pink Floyd fans, the shrouding wasn't by clouds of any hue there. The tricolour is richer in shades, and red is certainly more potent and brilliant. The BJP ought to think of some newer optical tincture. Perhaps its quasi-philistine thinktank can fish something out their obscurantist idelogical bag of nihilism. Wonder what that means? Well, scientists and rationalists do too.
The players were different in the two states; so were the grassroots political equations and situations. On the face of it, that is. In a variegated electorate that comprises India, few votebanks are common to more states than one. If you chose Option 3 or even 4, you will know which kingmaking formation was common to Assam and West Bengal: not Indians, you will agree. But them Bongs from opaar-Bongland.
Assam and West Bengal are the Lebensraum for Bangladeshis. These aliens don't vote in their own country anymore. We have made them Indians, they now vote in our's - in our states.
Them infiltrators are in substantial numbers now. By the time Assembly elections are held in Assam and West Bengal five years from now, they just might be overwhelming. Illegitimate Bongs will be all over the place. And the colour will be green. If you see red at the very thought, you are a patriotic Indian who just might want to do something about it. If you don't, it is high time you started caring for your country or became a politician.
