Tripura: After dropping massive within the municipal elections, TMC has been crying ‘there isn’t a democracy’

Last week, elections had been held for municipal our bodies all throughout Tripura. The outcomes had been stark. The TMC, which have been very lively within the state, bought 1 seat, out of 334.
As many as 329 seats for the BJP, simply 3 for the Left Front and 1 for newcomer TMC. In the screenshot above, you’ll be able to see Firhad Hakim, the mayor of Kolkata waving his finger on the media, telling them that there’s “no democracy in Tripura.”
So what ought to we are saying right here to the honourable mayor of Kolkata? How about one thing like Go Back, Mr Outsider? The TMC pioneered this politics. The TMC positioned this politics on the coronary heart of Indian liberalism, the place anybody coming throughout state strains is vilified as an invader. Remember that the TMC’s marketing campaign track “Khela Hobe” declared BJP’s “outsiders” as “Borgis” (robbers/plunderers)! The time period is utilized in Bengali to discuss with the Maratha assault on Bengal within the 1700s. So what ought to we label Firhad Hakim and different TMC leaders in the event that they attempt to come to Tripura? Which invasion ought to we evaluate it to? You inform me.
To the media struggling to make sense of what simply occurred in Tripura, I’ve a number of issues to say. First of all, congratulations on lastly accepting Tripura as an integral a part of the Republic of India. For most of you, the state didn’t even exist till March 3, 2018, when a BJP tsunami swept throughout the state, uprooting many years of Communist rule underneath Manik Sarkar. If I keep in mind accurately, a statue of Lenin was vandalized the following day and all hell broke free over “intolerance.”
Well, at the very least Tripura bought some air time. The CPIM’s Manik Sarkar had constructed an economic system with the very best unemployment in India, however that by no means made information. The solely employer anyplace in Tripura was the state itself, however with zero financial exercise, the state had no cash to pay them. As a end result, at the same time as authorities staff in all places else in India had been paid as per seventh Pay Commission charges in 2018, state staff in Tripura had been nonetheless caught at 4th Pay Commission wages.
That’s proper. State authorities staff in Tripura had been incomes 1983 wages in 2018. But that by no means got here up in our media, presumably as a result of the individuals of Tripura aren’t even residents of India. Only a decrepit statue of Lenin someplace in Agartala has rights. The statue could also be a dull merchandise with zero creative worth, however even Communist rubbish can have the liberal privilege.
Oh, and since nothing else labored within the state of Tripura, the one actual employers had been drug lords from Myanmar, who used the state as a gateway to the remainder of India. Again, the media in all probability by no means instructed you this. Just like they in all probability by no means instructed you in regards to the lady’s skeleton present in 2005 contained in the official residence of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar.
The media by no means instructed you ways a lot Tripura was struggling underneath the CPI(M) boot. And now they make you marvel how the BJP swept 329 out of 334 municipal wards. And don’t allow them to let you know this occurred as a result of the TMC break up the opposition vote. The BJP’s vote share within the 2018 Assembly win was 43%. This went as much as 49% within the Lok Sabha 2019 election and eventually to 59% within the simply concluded native physique elections.
In different phrases, TMC or no TMC, the BJP was poised to comb the election. And the individuals of Tripura have simply delivered an astonishing knock out punch to the imperialism of Mamata Banerjee. Just as a result of most individuals in Tripura converse Bengali doesn’t imply the tiny state should undergo the TMC. The Bengal CM was just lately in Goa, the place she reminded voters that Bengal is a “strong state.” Yeah, Goa perhaps India’s richest state, however Bengal is “strong.” That’s textbook imperialism. Remember that it’s Mamata Banerjee who mainstreamed this politics, urging Indians to label fellow Indians as “Borgis” as quickly as they cross state strains.
But like several good imperialist, the Bengal CM doesn’t acknowledge that different individuals have the identical rights as she does. And due to this fact when the outcomes got here out on Sunday, the TMC spent the day crying that there isn’t a democracy in Tripura. News channels in West Bengal, most of that are a part of the TMC’s machine, needed to resort to hilarious techniques to cowl for the Bengal CM’s lack of face. The most pathetic of all was the time they spent interviewing the one TMC candidate out of 334 who managed to win. At least one channel started studying out the whole checklist of ward numbers the place the TMC had managed to come back in second place.
Her enablers in “national” media weren’t far behind. For a month now, that they had turned the state govt of Tripura into an invented tremendous villain, blamed for something dangerous that occurs anyplace. Who says you’ll be able to’t blame the federal government of Tripura for violence in Amravati in Maharashtra? One ‘liberal’ information portal did a sequence of “stories” on how Tripura was burning and parked all of them on their entrance web page, particularly when voting was in progress. But you see, my pricey launderers, when outsiders pay, it’s outsiders who’re served.
In all of the unfavorable protection that the liberal ecosystem gave to Tripura earlier than and after the native physique elections, they in all probability forgot crucial precept of all. Most mockingly, it’s a precept that Mamata Banerjee illustrated in Bengal. There is not any crying in politics. The scoreboard reads 329 out of 334 for the BJP. Deal with it.