9th August Rally!

Editor,TOI
Dear Sir,
Perhaps you’ve tried to confuse readers about Mamata’s rally at Lalgarh by using the word ‘riddle’ which normally means ‘a question that is difficult to understand and has a surprising answer’. But here the question why Mamata would hold meeting at Lalgarh is neither difficult to understand, nor has it a surprising answer. So it’s no ‘riddle’ at all as you claim. First of all, the nexus between the Maoists and Mamata dates back to Nandigram-Singur days, if not earlier. Now at Lalgarh, Maoists are at present marginalized due to the action of the joint forces and they’ve been much alienated from common people. Their frontal organization PCPA is also facing resistance from public. What sores Mamata most is the vacuum created at Jangalmahal as the Maoists give way is filled up by CPM.So she requires the ultra left to combat the left and recover the ground lost to CPM. In fact, if in Jangalmahal,particularly before assembly polls, turbulence subsides and normalcy returns at least partially she would be the most loser. So to rejuvenate the Maoists or metaphorically supply oxygen to them through its frontal organization PCPA she’s planned to hold rally there and it’ll benefit both her and the Maoists. Though Prime minister has repeatedly says Maoists are the gravest internal threat to the nation, never has she spared a word against them. Rather she’s consistently protected them directly or indirectly on every occasion. She’s even gone to the length of saying that there’re no Maoists at Lalgarh. Now her relation with the Maoists has been totally exposed to people a large. Thank you.