#Amit_Shah@Kolkata Pun, metaphor, sarcasm and innuendo punctuated the speeches of BJP national president Amit Shah and other leading lights of the party yesterday at the high voltage rally at CR Avenue-Esplanade crossing. The whole fight for the venue with its high emotive value was all about the politics of symbolism that was sort of eulogised by the TMC. It was from this venue that the Trinamul chief had given the call for “sounding the death knell” for the Marxist regime for years since 13 Youth Congress supporters had fallen to police bullets during a Writers’ Buildings blockade in 1993 under her leadership as YC president. She kept holding the programme like an annual ritual till the Left Front-government was overthrown in 2011. The martyrs’ day programme in 2011 was held at Brigade Parade Ground to “coincide” it with the “historic” electoral victory. The symbolism was continued in 2013 and 2014. So much so that the Trinamul decided that it alone had the claim to this venue and refused to grant permission to the Left Front to organise a rally there. The BJP decided to hijack that politics of symbolism from the Trinamul and pay it back in its own coin at a time when its popularity graph in Bengal is rising and the TMCs nosediving in the wake of scams, collapsing law and order and discovery of terror networks thriving in the state. For this reason, it fought the legal battle to a photo finish, emerging victorious. Its leaders sought to match the Trinamuls alliteration in its slogan of “Ma-Mati-Manush with another, but one dripping with sarcasm ~ Madan-Mukul-Mamata referring to allegations of benefiting from the Saradha chit fund scam. In another near-repeat of the Trinamuls symbolism, Mr Shah and other top leaders fixed the KMC poll next year as the stepping stone for capturing power in Bengal. The Trinamul had set a similar target at the height of the Nandigram-Singur turmoil. Its leaders had described the target of capturing the “red building” on SN Banerjee Road (KMC headquarters) in 2010 as the “semi-final” and that of the other “red building” ~ Writers’ Buildings in 2011 as the “final”...!
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 07:41:32 +0000
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