Love for nephew, ousting of candidates, new candidates, and ego – Mamata has pressed the self-destruct button

Mamata Banerjee is not the charismatic pro-poor chief of 2011, whose mere sight would result in the folks of West Bengal flocking behind her with none questions being requested. She is not the fiery insurgent chief of TMC, working to liberate Bengal from the tyrannical Left rule. Instead, lately, Mamata Banerjee has turn out to be precisely what she had got down to destroy within the first place. Consumed by her love for Abhishek Banerjee – her nephew, an inflammable ego and a real hatred for the BJP, as a result of Mamata thinks it’s a get together of outsiders; the Bengal chief minister has hit the self-destruct button fairly confidently.A nexus of Abhishek Banerjee and Prashant Kishor has come to exist inside the TMC. The Ma, Mati, Manush get together is not a poor get together of devoted floor staff. It has as a substitute turn out to be, within the phrases of former TMC stalwart Dinesh Trivedi, a celebration that employed company consultancy corporations for crores of rupees. Abhishek Banerjee, notably, has come to train close to unrestrained energy inside the TMC – threatening to show the get together into a celebration of dynasts. What’s worse, Mamata Banerjee appears to haven’t any drawback with the identical and is as a substitute projecting Abhishek as her pure inheritor.Mamata Banerjee’s need of getting her nephew succeed her inside the TMC is having a number of ripple results. The most drastic results have been seen, in actual fact, within the ticket distribution of the get together. On Friday, the TMC introduced its checklist of 291 candidates. In it, candidates for 160 seats have been modified, and 114 new faces have been included. Twenty-eight sitting MLAs, together with 5 ministers, have been dropped. Many new youthful faces have been given tickets by Mamata and her get together, other than a heavy variety of native celebrities additionally discovering their names on the checklist.New faces being accommodated implies that the TMC has let go of many sitting leaders. But right here’s the factor with supremo-based events just like the TMC. Of course, the supremo has all of the would possibly inside the get together. However, there exist a number of stalwarts inside the get together, who’ve their very own following on the bottom. Mostly, supremo-based events have the names of the chiefs identified to all on the bottom. However, when push involves shove, the folks of a sure constituency is not going to facet with the supremo and abandon the middleman. For instance, the folks of Nandigram and adjoining areas will select Suvendu Adhikari over Mamata Banerjee any day.Read extra: Mamata has taken the boldest choice of her life which is able to turn into her foolhardyThe dropping of sitting MLA’s aggravates this syndrome, because the leaders who’ve been compelled to retire for now will make sure that the votes from their constituency don’t find yourself benefitting Mamata Banerjee, and as a consequence, the TMC. If that wasn’t already sufficient, Mamata Banerjee additionally has a fairly voracious ego, which threatens to imperil her political profession.Take as an illustration the CM Mamata’s suicidal choice of contesting the upcoming polls from the Nandigram constituency alone – which is a bastion of BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari. Leave alone being sworn in because the Chief Minister for a 3rd time period, Mamata Banerjee now faces the prospect of not even being elected as an MLA within the upcoming elections. That, most undoubtedly, would imply the top of a fiery political profession for Mamata Banerjee, as she could be compelled to rethink her continuance in politics after dropping Nandigram.Mamata Banerjee had been challenged by the BJP to contest from Nandigram, which she has now accepted – solely as a result of her ego. A poisonous cocktail of all this can most undoubtedly outcome within the TMC dealing with an unprecedented rout in West Bengal. For what it’s value, Mamata Banerjee may have no person however herself accountable, as she herself took to readily thumping on the self-destruct button.