Mamata: A Box of Jargons

Situation 1:

At the time of Demonetization, she said it's Financial Emergency going on in the country... unfortunately, she perhaps didn't know that Financial Emergency is a condition clearly defined by the Constitution which has its set Constitutional pre-conditions. In brevity, Financial Emergency is a grave situation when the liability of the Government is more than its assets & revenue. 

But she used the term at the time of Demonetization perhaps just for the phonetic appeal of the term. She was in search of a word that could take the vigorous gush out of her mind. The vigour perhaps came out of the financial loss that she had to incur due to Demonetization.

The day there was a fire incident in the PG Hospital after DeMo, she met the Press and uttered in her own inimitable style that "they turned all cash into ash!" Many kept pondering how was the fire incident of a Hospital related to 'cash turned into ash'!

So, Demonetization perhaps was a financial emergency personally for her & her party but this financial emergency was but a literary term which got nothing to do with the Constitutional term.

Situation 2:

In the month of December 2016, when Indian Army was doing its regular vehicle counting exercise on Second Hooghly Bridge at Kolkata beside 'NABANNA', she termed it a "Military Coup".

As reported by The Indian Express, "The exercise is done by stationing troops at strategic places along the state or national highways, which may include toll plazas, in order to get an accurate information of the number of average load bearing vehicles, trucks and buses, which pass through that particular area. The troops who are stationed for this exercise note down the make of the truck or bus and the load carrying capacity of it along with the frequency with which such vehicles pass through the area in the duration of the exercise. Normally this exercise is carried out twice a year all across the country."

Then why did she say so? Perhaps because she was too disturbed by the loss due to Demonetization. She was looking for an opportunity to retaliate back politically. She was in search of a strong word to describe how the Centre wanted to intimidate her political strength. So, she preferred to defame a regular Army exercise as a Military coup. She perhaps wanted to defame the PM by saying that he had set the Army behind her.

By saying all these, she herself was assuming immense importance in her own mind & massaging her own ego herself.  Since Demonetization had spoiled the chit fund reserve, she was fuming with anger & didn't know how could she have displayed a proper outburst of that.

Her plan could have been more vicious but didn't be so as the Army, as usual, did their work calmly had stated that they pre-informed the State Civilian Administration & the State Police about their scheduled operation.

She wanted to do an epic but had to stop by doing a mere drama.


Situation 3:

On 21st July, 2018, from the stage of her party's mega rally at Kolkata, she utterly claimed that she didn't ever respect any chair, but respect people. She spoke these words without perhaps understanding its implications. It's people who decide & elect who'd sit on the chair. After electing, it the responsibility of the people & their representatives to respect the chair. It's their chair. So, lack of respect for the chair meant lack of respect for the people too. Standing on & being the people's representative of a democratic country, she unambiguously denied the concept of democracy. Wasn't that an open exhibition of anti-nationalism? What if young boys too felt inspired by the anarchic spirit of her so called fire-speech & involved themselves in anarchism?

Situation 4:

After the Draft NRC of Assam is published, she said there would be a civil war leading to bloodbath. BJP President Shri Amit Shah took exception of those words of hers. He mentioned in a Press Conference that she required to explain how could the formation of NRC lead to civil war & bloodbath.

In this case too, she used those words to express the gush out of her mind. Why the gush? Because, she's perhaps afraid of loosing her vote bank. She needed a few words which could describe the imaginary gravity that she wanted to portray about the situation & hence chose those words namely 'civil war', 'bloodbath'.

She also perhaps wanted to have that 'bloodbath'. Not in her own State because the responsibility would be her own but in Assam. She sent her team to Assam perhaps to instigate violence. However, they were intercepted & stopped by the security personnel.

Situation 5:

After her party men were stopped at Silchar airport by the security personnel, she said it to be a Super Emergency. Here again, she was in search of a befitting literary term which could describe the disturbed state of her own mind. Why was she so disturbed that her party men got stopped at Silchar? Perhaps because she wanted to create turmoil there but could not. So she called it a 'Super Emergency'. A 'Super Emergency' is a condition where she was successfully prevented from implementing her vicious plans. The expression is her own coinage to exaggerate.

After being stopped at Silchar airport, her lady party members namely Mahua Moitra & Mamata Thakur involved in manhandling a lady security personal there. She got injured. This was the 'Super Emergency' she created at Silchar airport where people's representatives were manhandling security personnel public servants.

Situation 6:

Last but not the least, yesterday or day before, she asked the interviewer of Republic TV, "all infiltrators criminals"? Please kindly note, the CM of a State of India asked this question in front of a national news channel. Isn't this a shame & disgrace for the people of West Bengal? In civilized society, all infiltrators are necessarily criminals & infiltration is a hard core crime no lesser than theft or burglary. Why should someone infiltrate into someone else's territory?

 "All infiltrators criminals"?
Doesn't this single question raised by her reflect her psyche & makes it clear to us what Mamata Banerjee is all about? Is infiltration a well-accepted natural phenomenon in her community standard?

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