Playing victim is an old game. Sometime it pays off; most of the time it doesn't. But the trick has a large following - indeed, larger than life, because it's the trick of last resort for all the losers of the world.
Look at the CPM. It lost Bengal, but it refuses to understand a simple thing: there is no substitute for good administration and that administration involves a lot of healthy things like good economy, good politics, and good social management. Look at the way it's frittering away the energy of its administrations in Tripura and Kerala. While Kerala has become the byword in India for the politics of murder and the appeasement of Islamists, Tripura, though headed by a simple and honest man like Manik Sarkar, is being made by party's politburo buccaneers make issue out of nothing.
If one were to believe CPM's propaganda machine, the Tripura CM's speech on the I-Day was deliberately not telecast by the DD. The latter has a different take. Its Agartala centre said in a press release that of the 29 minutes 45 seconds coverage of I-Day function of the state, 12 minutes were devoted to the state CM's address. Further, there was a repeat of the program and hence the actual coverage given to the CM was much more in terms of time and space. On top, there were regional bulletins that, too, covered the CM's speech.
In the given situation, it would be much better for the CPM to learn a bit from Infosys mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy statement made on Tuesday that termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of "competitive cooperative federalism" as brilliant. It may revive the party and take it far if it followed the principles of competitive cooperative federalism instead of wasting its time on promoting jealousy and hatred among different classes. What Tripura and Kerala need are investments in the state so that resources could be mobilized on funding projects for the welfare of the people.
Murthy hasn't been known as a fan of the PM; in fact, he has been known as an acolyte of the dynasty. Hence, his remarks on the PM's latest brainwave of competitive cooperative federalism need to be taken much more seriously.
CPM buccaneers use Sarkar to take a shot at Modi
By IndianMandarins - 2017-08-16 23:59:52
Playing victim is an old game. Sometime it pays off; most of the time it doesn't. But the trick has a large following - indeed, larger than life, because it's the trick of last resort for all the losers of the world.
Look at the CPM. It lost Bengal, but it refuses to understand a simple thing: there is no substitute for good administration and that administration involves a lot of healthy things like good economy, good politics, and good social management. Look at the way it's frittering away the energy of its administrations in Tripura and Kerala. While Kerala has become the byword in India for the politics of murder and the appeasement of Islamists, Tripura, though headed by a simple and honest man like Manik Sarkar, is being made by party's politburo buccaneers make issue out of nothing.
If one were to believe CPM's propaganda machine, the Tripura CM's speech on the I-Day was deliberately not telecast by the DD. The latter has a different take. Its Agartala centre said in a press release that of the 29 minutes 45 seconds coverage of I-Day function of the state, 12 minutes were devoted to the state CM's address. Further, there was a repeat of the program and hence the actual coverage given to the CM was much more in terms of time and space. On top, there were regional bulletins that, too, covered the CM's speech.
In the given situation, it would be much better for the CPM to learn a bit from Infosys mentor N.R. Narayana Murthy statement made on Tuesday that termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's idea of "competitive cooperative federalism" as brilliant. It may revive the party and take it far if it followed the principles of competitive cooperative federalism instead of wasting its time on promoting jealousy and hatred among different classes. What Tripura and Kerala need are investments in the state so that resources could be mobilized on funding projects for the welfare of the people.
Murthy hasn't been known as a fan of the PM; in fact, he has been known as an acolyte of the dynasty. Hence, his remarks on the PM's latest brainwave of competitive cooperative federalism need to be taken much more seriously.
