Working Together

It’s nice to see Asoke Bhattacherjayaya, the urban development minister and KMC Mayor Sovandev Chatterjee in the same frame. They sat together and made discussion about the developmental work of Kolkata . Mayor told the press such working together was necessary in the interest of Kolkata, the Capital of West Bengal. He’s also pointed out they depend on each other, so they should work in unison, although they belong to two different parties with different ideologies. In fact it’s what it should be. Unfortunately, such an incident is an exception rather than a rule in our state. Here ruling party and opposition are not even on speaking terms, let alone they work together. But it’s not the culture of our state. Here, all along ruling and opposition worked together, as is done in other states, at least in case of developmental activities. It’s only a few years since such an antagonistic attitude between govt and opposition in every sphere of work developed. Truly speaking, this attitude is more prominent with the opposition than with the ruling party. So unless this mindset is changed our state will continue to suffer as now in future too.