Friday, July 24, 2009

When will strikes stop in my Kolkata (Calcutta) !!!

For some or the other reason, West Bengal have been in news for quite some time, be it Singur or Lok Sabha elections, or Mamta Banerjee's Rail Budget or Maoist threat in Lalgarh. There was strike few days back called by congress and its back again by some unions today.

Lot of people outside of kolkata anticipate that most strikes are because of communists in W.B. But, it seems now the trend has changed and strikes are called by someone else, sometimes congress, sometimes Trinamol congress or some other union. The baseline is whether communists are there or not, strikes have become a part-and-parcel of us in kolkata. So lets not blame CPI(M) alone for the strikes.

I just hope that the peace returns in West Bengal soon.