Pic - An Illustrative Picturisation With Contents That Decries All About President Rule.
Without The Imposition Of The " PRESIDENT RULE ", B.J.P CANNOT WIN ELECTION IN BENGAL
Electoral Integrity, Law and Order, and the Debate Over Governance in West Bengal
The recurring claim that a change of government in West Bengal is impossible without the imposition of President's Rule rises in the political imagination like a storm over the Bay of Bengal.
Heavy with foreboding, charged with humidity, and thick with accumulated grievance. It is not merely an electoral forecast; it is a lament about institutions, a suspicion directed at process, and a question posed to the very grammar of federal democracy. In a land that has given India both the lyricism of Tagore and the thunder of mass movements, such anxieties do not whisper; they gather like monsoon clouds over the Hooghly.
Flowing from this anxiety is the contentious issue of demographic change, often narrated in tones of
urgency and alarm. Bengal, shaped by the trauma of Partition and the long riverine porosity of its
borders, has always been a delta of human movement. Rivers do not ask for passports; they carry silt,
memory, and migration alike. Yet when the metaphor of the river becomes entangled with the
arithmetic of elections, suspicion hardens into accusation. Claims of undocumented migration altering
electoral outcomes circulate widely, but in a constitutional order citizenship cannot be measured by
rumor nor adjudicated by rhetoric. Like the careful weaving of a Baluchari saree, the question demands
patient threads of evidence, lawful verification, and institutional transparency.
Interwoven with demographic anxieties is the charge that identity (religious, linguistic, or communal)
has become the loom upon which electoral victories are woven. Critics argue that certain
neighborhoods have crystallized into predictable voting blocs, forming what they perceive as electoral
fortresses. Yet voting behavior, like the currents of the Sundarbans, is rarely linear. It moves through
channels of welfare policy, local patronage, ideological alignment, and lived experience. To reduce
complex political choice to a single axis is to mistake the entire mangrove forest for one visible root.
The discourse grows darker when it turns to law and order. Bengal’s political past whether under Left
Front dominance or under subsequent administrations, has long carried stories of cadre networks and
localized strongmen. The figure of the neighborhood enforcer, spoken of in colloquial idiom, becomes in such narratives a recurring character in a long political novel. If such figures operate beyond restraint,
democracy resembles a Durga Puja pandal whose decorative façade conceals unstable scaffolding. A
franchise exercised in fear is a diya flickering in the wind: formally lit, yet perpetually threatened.
Allegations of electoral malpractice (booth capturing, proxy voting, obstruction) surface with each
electoral season, like the annual swelling of the Ganges. India’s Election Commission stands as a
constitutional embankment against such floods, equipped with electronic voting systems, observers,
and central paramilitary deployments. Yet embankments must not only exist; they must inspire
confidence. When citizens doubt neutrality, even ordinary administrative lapses acquire the symbolism
of systemic rot. Trust, once eroded, spreads skepticism like water through paddy fields.
It is in this climate that proposals for extraordinary remedies arise. Some argue for reducing reliance on
state police and increasing the presence of central forces; others invoke the constitutional instrument of
President’s Rule. Such measures, however, resemble the deployment of a cyclone shelter for a seasonal
storm—necessary only under exceptional threat. Article 356, embedded in India’s federal design, was
intended as an emergency valve, not a routine electoral device. To normalize it would be to redraw the
delicate alpena of federal balance with heavy ink.
The apprehensions voiced by critics often crystallize into a set of recurring demands and warnings:
That electoral rolls be subjected to transparent, independent audits to dispel doubts
regarding citizenship and duplication.
That central security forces play a more pronounced role in sensitive polling areas to
reassure voters of neutrality.
That allegations of intimidation, booth control, and proxy voting be investigated swiftly by
independent authorities.
That administrative accountability extend beyond polling day to include pre- and post-
election violence.
These demands, whether one agrees with their premises or not, reveal a deeper hunger for credibility.
They are less a blueprint for conquest than a plea for trust.
The specter of civil unrest is frequently invoked, sometimes in language as dramatic as a jatra
performance under floodlights. Predictions of violence, of institutional paralysis, of confrontation
between forces and factions, circulate widely. Yet history teaches that rhetoric itself can become
combustible. Bengal, which once nurtured reformist renaissance and revolutionary zeal in equal
measure, knows the cost of escalation. To summon images of conflagration is to play with sparks in a
granary.
Ultimately, the proposition that electoral change is impossible without suspending ordinary governance
speaks to a crisis of confidence rather than a simple contest of numbers. Democracy is not merely the
counting of ballots; it is the cultivation of legitimacy. Like the patient rhythm of a Rabindra Sangeet, it
depends upon harmony among institutions—police, election authorities, judiciary, and civil society.
Where harmony falters, discord is amplified.
West Bengal stands, therefore, not at the edge of inevitability but at the crossroads of institutional
renewal. The task is neither apocalyptic prediction nor complacent dismissal, but the strengthening of
those constitutional guardrails that allow political competition to unfold without fear. In a state whose
history has been shaped by intellectual ferment and mass mobilization, the ultimate safeguard lies not
in extraordinary decrees but in ordinary integrity—administered consistently, enforced impartially, and
trusted collectively.
Only then will the monsoon of accusation give way to the clearer skies of
democratic assurance.
That is it
Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur.
He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management.
He has authored NINE , books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta in 2012, GOLDEN QUOTES on INSPIRATION , SORROW , PEACE and LIFE published by B.F.C Publications, Lucknow, , and QUOTES:: Evolution and Origin of Management Electives by by BOOKSCLINIC Publishing House , , Bilaspur , Chhattisgarh ,From Dhyan To Dhan :: Indian Hockey - Sudden Death Or Extra Time published by BOOKS CLINIC Publishing House , Bilaspur , Chattisgarh and his FIRST book on Hindi poem, which reads as " BHED HAI GEHRA - BAAT JARA SI " and MIDAS TOUCH AND MIRACLES OF INDIAN SPORTS , his latest one is Psychology Of Being Self Confident And Socially Esteemed , which also has been published published by BooksClinics , Bilaspur , Chhattisgarh,
He carries a solid experience of about 35 years in Marketing , and Business Analytics .
Th
Comments
Post a Comment