Friday, May 20, 2011

DIDi of Bengal

The dust has just settled down in bengal after the election results and things are beginning to take concrete shape. Didi has been crowned as the CM and her arrival to oath was quite dramatic. She chose to walk the last KM to writers building , which was very practical because even if she drove in that distance the time taken would have been the same what with the milling crowd in that area. The real test for didi and the people of bengal will start now. Will she be able to deliver the development that the people of bengal were denied during the 34 years of the left rule.It will surely be a tough ask for the didi. Will didi be the same austere person that she was during the struggle against the left govt or will she be sucked in by the trapping of power. Will she go the mayawati /Jayalalitha way or will she chart out a path of her own . Her track record in govt unfortunately does not leave scope for much optimism. She has shown to be autocratic bordering on being whimsical and prone to be populistic than being pragmatic and practical. The question upper most is will she display the same stamina that she displayed during her struggle when she is charting developmental plans for state. Answers to these questions will decide the fate of the state bengal ,