SANJAY BASAK finds out how the West Bengal CM faltered, and almost tripped, while running on the reforms’ road. And now, he has decided to take the bull by the horn
Only a few months back, West Bengal was burning. From Nandigram to Ketugram, hundreds of houses were razed to the ground. While some of the people fell to police bullets, others were burnt alive or hacked to death by the red ‘Marxist’ brigade. The most progressive face in India’s Marxist history, CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was compared to the Chinese Premier, Deng Xiaoping, for his reforms, reverted back to a seemingly-dictatorial image of USSR’s Joseph Stalin.
Thanks to such tensions, governance, which was the key mantra until recently, has come to a standstill in West Bengal. Yet, when Buddhadeb took charge, he moved swiftly to change the skyline of Bengal, plagued by strikes and lack of development. His closest ally, Bengal’s industry minister, Nirupom Sen, had then told this correspondent, “The time has come to move forward.” And Bengal did start running.
But the journey to push Bengal up the industrialisation ladder wasn’t easy. The CM initially faced opposition from within his cadre. The most powerful trade union, CPI(M) affiliated CITU, rose against reforms. And the all-powerful party politburo frowned upon them. The electoral and ideological allies of the CPI(M), CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP were jolted by the speed at which the new CM rushed to make Bengal a ‘Shilpabandhu’ (industry friendly) state.
For example, Buddhadeb wanted to eliminate trade unionism in the IT sector. He indicated that if the IT employees wanted “to resort to strikes, they have to abide by the rules of the Essential Services Act.” The move rang alarm bells. The first one to raise his voice against it was the sports minister, Subhash Chakraborty, an arch rival of the CM, and he threatened to form unions. CITU remained firm too. Despite the former CM Jyoti Basu’s backing, nothing has been formalised till date.
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Only a few months back, West Bengal was burning. From Nandigram to Ketugram, hundreds of houses were razed to the ground. While some of the people fell to police bullets, others were burnt alive or hacked to death by the red ‘Marxist’ brigade. The most progressive face in India’s Marxist history, CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was compared to the Chinese Premier, Deng Xiaoping, for his reforms, reverted back to a seemingly-dictatorial image of USSR’s Joseph Stalin.
Thanks to such tensions, governance, which was the key mantra until recently, has come to a standstill in West Bengal. Yet, when Buddhadeb took charge, he moved swiftly to change the skyline of Bengal, plagued by strikes and lack of development. His closest ally, Bengal’s industry minister, Nirupom Sen, had then told this correspondent, “The time has come to move forward.” And Bengal did start running.
But the journey to push Bengal up the industrialisation ladder wasn’t easy. The CM initially faced opposition from within his cadre. The most powerful trade union, CPI(M) affiliated CITU, rose against reforms. And the all-powerful party politburo frowned upon them. The electoral and ideological allies of the CPI(M), CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP were jolted by the speed at which the new CM rushed to make Bengal a ‘Shilpabandhu’ (industry friendly) state.
For example, Buddhadeb wanted to eliminate trade unionism in the IT sector. He indicated that if the IT employees wanted “to resort to strikes, they have to abide by the rules of the Essential Services Act.” The move rang alarm bells. The first one to raise his voice against it was the sports minister, Subhash Chakraborty, an arch rival of the CM, and he threatened to form unions. CITU remained firm too. Despite the former CM Jyoti Basu’s backing, nothing has been formalised till date.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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