Shame! Democracy is at stake
December 26th, 2009The term democracy in West Bengal, India, has received many accolades from all corners of the world. The political awareness of West Bengal has received acclaim that is due from renowned democrats.
The recent trends in the students election in several colleges has certainly stained such glorious democracy, for which the political awareness of West Bengal is reckoned.
The not-so-humble students have been found to walk into the colleges with fire arms have engaged themselves even in bombing and other criminal activities. Intriguingly, in many occasions, the intrusion of political parties and ‘dadas’ in the college premises have been noticed.
The result is that many students have met with formidable devastation just at the blossoming stage of their lives and that too for reinstating democracy.
It is always expressed as a matter of pride, when the people speaks of the growth of political leaders from the student politics. West Bengal always boasts with bountiful of such names like the present Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya, Biman Basu, Late Subhash Chakraborty, Shyamal Chakraborty, Mamata Banerjee, Subrata Mukherjee, Priyo Ranjan Dasmunsi and many more. The people of West Bengal always remain proud about their political consciousness.
The glorious past slogan, What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow, is enchanted with utter pride.
Unfortunately when most of the today’s political leaders have been completely alienated from the people, they have tried to misguide the young generation just to increase their political base.
The obvious result has come up in the form of most unwanted death and disasters of many students at a stage, when they had just attempted to step into the world of democracy.
It is really ridiculous that the political leaders often spat fire in the press conferences and everybody demands a clean students election, which is should be supposedly free from all external interventions. Everybody talks of bringing semblance of law and order and they hardly restrain themselves from intervening even in students forum.
It is indeed true that the students can remain political motivated, but they should not forget that they become students’ representatives to vouch for the demands of the students to create a better education ambiance.
No student vote them to create nuisance inside the college premises. The political Dadas and Didis should remember that the they can brainstorm the students in their so called ideologies, but that should not disturb the holistic education premises.
The oppositions attempt to allege the ruling party and the vice-verse. In such a dirty battle, the only loser is the budding youth and most unconsciously. The time has come, when the political parties should reinstall the minimum social ethics in their cadres!