Political Entrapment

Education and health system in West Bengal is in complete dismay. Teachers are busy protesting on the roads, since they have become victim of the limitless corruption in the system. Healthcare workers too, including doctors protesting against the system for exposing them to hooliganism in their job places. Why only them, everywhere around us, we can feel a sense of anarchy has taken over. As if, this anarchism is the new normalcy for them, people of West Bengal have accepted and living their life through smart phones, in self centred cocoon into the virtual world of social media. It is not that there are not protest and rebuttal coming across, but the problem is those voices are nose diving midway either in the political whirlwind or withering away as ebb tide and being taken over by new issues. Honestly, sometimes, it feels that negative issues are becoming addictive and people are willing to discuss negativity, as past time more than seriously contemplating over their impact on our society. Otherwise, why should we indulge ourselves more into religious fanaticism than to discuss real issues of joblessness, price rise and corruption etc.?

 

Out of which, corruption, seemingly is having least moral impact on people of West Bengal. Probably, they have accepted it as part and parcel of their life and decided to carry on with it. May be, people started believing that corruption is the new virtue by which definition of ‘Success’ can be re-written. Political system and its people are no aliens. They arise from our society only and largely when people of our society celebrate success undermining the process through which it has been achieved, this class of so called politicians seize the opportunity. I strongly believe that like all other strata in the society there are people in politics also, who refuse to completely give away moral values for the sake of so called success. But unfortunately, those people are fast becoming minority and gasping for their breath. With such overall degradation, miscreants are started ruling the roost, believing that they have given free hand by the administration. Instead of the willingness to intervene in a positive manner, our judiciary though, hand tied by its inherent nature of procrastination, failing to protect more often than not. As I told you earlier also, under these circumstances, the voices which really matters, keeping mum, establishes the fact once again that entering into the orbit of success and thereby protect own interest is more important than peoples agony. From natural calamity to organised and systematic corruption, from social atrocity to criminal activity, like tidal wave, thudding the life of our people, we are getting busier into festivity and becoming frenzy. Applying the old trick of sweeping the problems under the rug, religious activities are being transformed into extended festivals. Juggling with religious sentiments, fully aware of its menacing effect over our society, is increasingly becoming trendy just for the sake of getting political dividend. We also are playing into their hand like the story of Pied piper of Hamelin by getting swayed. Wilful false promises followed by silly excuses making life of common people miserable, to say the least.   

 

It is not too late, before everything is lost. It is a question though that how quickly sensitive people of West Bengal realises and proactively deal with the situation.