How resurgent is Bengal
Given the intensity of opposition movement, doubts about industrial resurgence in Bengal have surfaced in many minds. Compare this with the time last year when the LF romped home with 10:1 majority. Didn’t LF win on the plank of developing industry? Oh yeah, they did. Why then the doubts now in some of their of their comrades’ minds, not to speak of the hapless those who are on the verge of loosing their lands?
Good this has happened. Good, because there’ll now be some introspection. No, I’m not raising the flag of ‘hallowed’ opposition, who feel they’re now the new messiah of landless laborers and agricultural workers. For sure I agree to what they say, farming is our base, industry the future. No nation on earth progressed or can progress based on agriculture alone. This is not a new story.
The new story is whether Bengal can indeed carry with it the ‘resurgence’ tag attached to it. On the face of it, as I mentioned in the first line, it doesn’t seem the path to resurgence will be a cakewalk. On the contrary, there’ll be hiccups, plenty of them, some even as bad as faring poorly in coming panchayat elections.
And that is where the actual doubt lies. Will the ruling parties be calculative enough to target the larger goal than getting bothered by short-term challenges? This only time will tell.
Meanwhile if Singur can come up really fast on the back of Tata Motors’ urgency to roll out their cars by mid next year, it can be held as proof as to why industries are needed. Singur’s success may turn out as crossing the proverbial threshold beyond which reservations about putting land for industry’s use gradually pale.
In the midst of all this brouhaha, the Italian PM has selected Kolkata his first destination in his India trip. He sits tomorrow with CM to talk business. Opposition’s protests notwithstanding, the strong business delegation accompanying him sends the message loud and clear: Bengal is indeed resurging.
For, if not so, no business person, let alone the head of a G8 nation – group of 8 rich nations that among them controls 65% of world economy – would have cared to set foot in the state. It’s another matter that many of us haven’t yet felt the distant footsteps of Bengal prospering.
Good this has happened. Good, because there’ll now be some introspection. No, I’m not raising the flag of ‘hallowed’ opposition, who feel they’re now the new messiah of landless laborers and agricultural workers. For sure I agree to what they say, farming is our base, industry the future. No nation on earth progressed or can progress based on agriculture alone. This is not a new story.
The new story is whether Bengal can indeed carry with it the ‘resurgence’ tag attached to it. On the face of it, as I mentioned in the first line, it doesn’t seem the path to resurgence will be a cakewalk. On the contrary, there’ll be hiccups, plenty of them, some even as bad as faring poorly in coming panchayat elections.
And that is where the actual doubt lies. Will the ruling parties be calculative enough to target the larger goal than getting bothered by short-term challenges? This only time will tell.
Meanwhile if Singur can come up really fast on the back of Tata Motors’ urgency to roll out their cars by mid next year, it can be held as proof as to why industries are needed. Singur’s success may turn out as crossing the proverbial threshold beyond which reservations about putting land for industry’s use gradually pale.
In the midst of all this brouhaha, the Italian PM has selected Kolkata his first destination in his India trip. He sits tomorrow with CM to talk business. Opposition’s protests notwithstanding, the strong business delegation accompanying him sends the message loud and clear: Bengal is indeed resurging.
For, if not so, no business person, let alone the head of a G8 nation – group of 8 rich nations that among them controls 65% of world economy – would have cared to set foot in the state. It’s another matter that many of us haven’t yet felt the distant footsteps of Bengal prospering.
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