Dear Sir,
Ridicule and banter you've hurled at the former Chief Minister(TOI,June 1) in connection with yesterday's LF rally reek of bad taste and is sheer unbecoming of a news daily like yours.Role reversal is part and parcel of democracy and it's healthy too.It was partly because there was no strong opposition ,LF continued in power for so long.TMC and Congress combine constituted a viable opposition that dislodged the Left from power.There's nothing new in it as it so happens almost in every democratic system.But media had blown the incident out of proportions and adorned it with epithets like 'historic', unprecedented etc.In fact, you got hysteric about this swapping of power and made this hysteric syndromes percolate down to people at large.Some compare the fall of LF regime with fall of Bastille in French revolution. Some say Bengal is 'unshackled' after LF is routed in polls as if people were robbed of their fundamental rights in Left regime.Do you think Left have done nothing good in 34 yrs and it harked back to power with overwhelming majority for consecutively 7 times in 2006 as electorate were all pack of fools?Did you ever spare a word of praise for the Left?Perhaps you have not. On the contrary, attempts have been systematically made to inject a sense of hatred in people's psyche by repeatedly maligning the LF on some pretext or other.In this respect you perhaps excelled even Mamata Banerjee who used to spew venom on CPM as her arch rival.What's unfortunate is she's mellowed down after elections but you have not.But please don't forget 42% of electorate in the state still support the Left.
You have very correctly unveiled the role of media as a whole which are controlled by big business or vested interests the world over. Their only aim is to perpetuate the rule of the oppressor. When some alternative way of governance is offered anywhere they are up in arms to pull it down. These not only originate in the Langley but it is at the same time orchestrated in th length and breadth of the globe. In the name of democracy USA occupies the oil and other wealth of any country and hoist servile regime and the paid media of the world policeman hail those actions as the protection of human rights. Now people's opinion is formed by the media by feeding news and vies which they manufacture just to further the interests of the privileged classes, though in the name of protecting the interests of the common man.Thank you for speaking the truth in real terms.
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