drskmukherjee

The Assembly election 2021 in West Bengal is going to be very eventful and challenging. The Mamata government is working hard against possible anti-incumbency, while the BJP is putting all efforts to seize power to rule the state. For both sides the stakes are so high that the election in Bengal is turning into an unpredictable, no-holds-barred spectacle. Whatever be the result of the election, it will be a turning point. Reports are pouring in that the BJP is facing serious internal dissension following its decision to field defector from Trinamool Congress in preference to its own old timers.  The joke doing the rounds in Bengal is that the contest is actually between Trinamool ‘A’ team versus Trinamool ‘B’ team with virtually half the candidates fielded by BJP being defectors from Trinamool, some joining BJP as recently as this month after they were dropped by Trinamool Congress. As the list of candidates have been declared, BJP has fielded it's sitting MPs for contesting Assemb

Authoritarianism and greed for power create fear of insecurity in governments, as a result of which governments try to intimidate those who dare to speak up in democracy to bring forward what is right and expose what is wrong. The government scares them so that they do not question. The government takes control of the media by intimidating it. Scared media with their group of scared journalists produces dead citizens.  That is why the agitators are picked up by the police, FIRs are registered with a long list of sections, they are removed from their jobs, due to which our citizenship is weakened.  Knowing and questioning are the two basic requirements of every citizen to fulfill the responsibility of a citizen in a democracy. Citizens who abstain from questioning due to fear forget that the country runs by the Constitution and not by the arbitrariness of those sitting at the helm of the power. Despite being a citizen, we are afraid when we are either not aware of our rights or we know