Smt. Mamata,
In an earlier open letter, I congratulated you for
taking oath for the past consecutive terms as the Chief Minister of
Bengal, hoping that you would preserve the federal state’s democratic
governance with oath-laden honesty, sincerity and dedication, and stopping the
RSS-fed regressive ideology and communal juggernaut promoted by the BJP.
You seemed to be a
pragmatic, a down-to-earth politician, trying to push
back divisive politics, in order to safeguard the “secular ethos”. You have the
constitutional responsibility to protect everyone, appeasing no one. Remember,
all communities have helped you to govern Bengal once more.
Your ‘politics of populism’ and the multi-faceted welfare schemes have given
you the people’s mandate.
Before
everything else, it is time now to handle the present crisis starting with what
has emerged after the heinous murder of a Doctor at R. G. Kar. The ‘fonsh’
and the fire are evident. We are seeing mass protest movement
with such angst and total no-confidence against your government. You as the Health Minister, please take
up the moral responsibility for this killing and all the corruptions in the
health and police departments. Otherwise, your government will surely be
crippled by your own gross mismanagement of the situation. Kindly, follow the
philosophy of Raj dharma. Acknowledge your deliberate negligence of duty
and apologize to the people. Your humility will
save from any mistake you make on the way. Your ‘welfarism’ policy and the
‘politics of populism’ have run its course. For people now, enough is enough.
Get it clear!
As a Banglar meye, protect all people of Bengal from all ‘evils’ that prowl before
your eyes and under your nose. You know them all. Keep Bengal corrupt-free, healthy and united.
And for this, here below are the DOs and
DON’Ts that I recommend you to follow:
DOs :
1. Put the systemic administration right, with law and
order: stop all violences
and acts that inflict deaths and distress, and divide communities.
2. Directly
intervene with the agitating junior doctors and sort out the issues; give good
hearing to the valid demands.
3.
Let the
Police do their job independently, do not patronize them. Bring back law and order in the state, immediately.
4.
Dismiss
and suspend corrupt officers and other bureaucrats who do not do their duties.
5.
Initiate an urgent process and plan through the party
decision, to handle the R. G. Kar crisis with a sincere heart.
6.
Stop ‘political repression’ over those
who do not align to your policy.
7. Accept the fact that there is a widespread discontent against the TMC government at the
grassroots level; an anti-incumbency
trend mostly around the local Trinamul leaders and units; disaffection
with Trinamul syndicates, extortions, commission cuts, Dadas, mafia Mastans
(musclemen) and other anti-socials.
8. Curb the syndicates, dangabaji and goondagiri
at every level.
9. Clean up your party and the government; stop all kinds of corruption, coercion,
criminality and mismanagement by your tier-leaders at various
levels.
10. Close all bomb-gun-factories in Bengal, and stop
all smuggling of arms from outside.
11. Get rid of the scam tainted party leaders and other
corrupt colleagues around you.
12. Stop the bribe (cut-money) which has become a part
of your political system.
13. Work with a systemic approach, through the SWOT
strategy, having a Goal, Objective, Action Plan, and above all a Mission.
14.
Be a credible leader for Bengal whom
all can look upto.
15. Uplift
the subalterns: ST, SC, OBC, Dalits, etc. Be
a Mamatadebi for all sections of society, especially women and the
vulnerable groups.
16.
Revive the educational and medical culture of Bengal through standard
and secure institution with monitored quality and good infrastructure.
17. Place yourself at the forefront of truth, honesty,
humility and simplicity.
18. Deliver on the promises you make.
19. Form a new team of lieutenants for the future, delivering
on governance and dealing with corruption from the very grassroot level.
20.
You need to do course corrections too, keeping away personal ‘ego’ and give
up authoritarianism.
21. Stop all arrogant behaviors and
the increasing strong-arm tactics of your party leaders.
22. Implement and complete with honesty and
transparency all the schemes (central and state) that are sanctioned.
23. Build
infrastructures for income and employment generation, through industrialisation. Get land
for it.
24. Suspend for good all corrupt and convicted ministers,
MLAs and MPs.
25. Make district and panchayat administration totally
transparent, to oversee the implementation of the projects: The National Food
Security Act, Shabuj Sathi, Kanyashree,
Ruposhree, Rural Development, Drinking water connection, Duare Sarkar,
Didike bolo, SC/ST/OBC/BPL certificate distribution, etc.
26. As the symbol of “Ma-Mati-Manush”,
be a collective conscience of people of Bengal.
27. If you are inspired by the
ideals of St. (Mother) Teresa of Calcutta, allow her compassion and love shine
through your honest political services in Bengal.
DON’Ts :
1.
Do not indulge into toxic politics of communal polarization.
2. Do not allow your grassroot
leaders to use threat tactics and take law in their hands in connivance with
the local police.
3.
Do not prevent the local Thanas
to work independently and keep law and order in the region.
4.
Do not allow the inclusive cultural heritage of Bengal to be
destroyed by the Hindutva invasion.
5.
Do not do politics of ‘tokenism’, doling
out just a superficial ‘pleasing taste’.
6. Do not
divide and dissatisfy the intellectual cultural elite and the learned of Bengal.
7.
Do not lure non-party intellectuals and activists in Bengal.
Respect their independent views.
8.
Do not do minority/clubs-appeasement,
with Puja bonus, money, footballs and such freebees. Serve all the 91 million people
of Bengal.
9. Do not do something that
your people will revolt against.
10. Do not allow your ministers
and party leaders to make illegal money either for the party or self (e.g.
alleged Coal scam, Sand scam, Cow scam, Cut-money, Sarada, Narada, and the
recent alleged Health Scam, etc.).
11.
Do not fall into nepotism and appeasement politics.
12. Do not create a cult figure invincibility
for blind followers/partymen and women.
13. Don’t be too impulsive, while working by instinct,
discern well for the decisions to be made.
14.
Do not be ‘cheap’
in your speeches. Invest time and preparation, integrated with more ‘stuff’
that are built on research and reason. Let them not be unorganized ‘freebees’. Keep
the dignity of statesmanship.
Yours
sincerely,
(Soroj
Mullick)
A common citizen of Bengal
