Congress's Chintan Sibir

Nothing new has transpired from recently concluded Congress’s Chintan Sibir at Krishnagar,Nadia . It was altogether a tame affair. However, in the present political circumstances Congress has nothing to do but to play the second fiddle to Trinomool Congress(TMC). In Bengal Congress, in fact, is suffering from identity crisis. Now its primary duty as assigned to it by Central leadership and Congress high command in particular is to assist TMC to remove the Left from state power.TMC supremo on the other hand, is well aware that despite her charisma TMC alone can’t fight the Left and wrest power to make her Chief minister So is this alliance with Congress or in other words marriage of convenience. However, she’s also aware recent electoral successes are largely due to her party and so dictates terms unilaterally in seat adjustment. Though it brews resentment among the rank and file of congress and top leadership too rue such dictatorship of the TMC chief, but their voice is silenced by congress high command as she can not afford to lose the golden opportunity of ousting the Left from power after more than three decades. That apart, the recent memory of the Left’s abortive efforts to topple her government at center haunts her bitterly. Besides , she’s other compulsions too. So she’s to surrender to TMC chief’s most unjustified demands for electoral seats. In Chintan Sibir Pranab Mukherjee tried to pacify the simmering discontent prevailing to a larger extent among a section of state leaders and cadres, by criticizing TMC supremo, that too in a mild way. However, he did not forget to eulogize her in the same breath for successes in polls. Again, as Mr. Mukherjee has no mass base of his own and he’s to depend on party activists here for his electoral success, so he needs to keep them in good humour.For his own stake too he’d to be a bit critical of TMC chief.