Discourteous

Only a few days back Urban development minister Asoke Bhattacharyya and KMC Mayor Sovandev Chatterjee were seen discussing developmental work of Kolkata, seated together. It was really a very rare spectacle one normally comes across in our state where leaders belonging to chief opposition even hate to see the faces of those in government. Perhaps, it didn’t spring surprise to many when a MOU was signed between KMC, KoPT and RITES over riverbank facelift project in Kolkata in absence of any one belonging to state govt. In fact, no minister, nor any officer of the local govt was at all invited on this occasion, though the Central Minister Pranab Mukherjee who’s supposed to be a gentle man having regard for democratic norms apart from being personally stickler of courtesy in general was present there in his official capacity. How is a project that concerns a state taken up without taking the concerned state in confidence? Even if it’s legally permissible, it’s not ethically admissible. How is all decency and decorum so easily gone to the winds? What lessons would our youth take from such incidents? What message do our politicians convey to their electorate by such blatant display of discoutesy?Definitely, our forthcoming days won’t bring us any good tiding.