Kolkata, May 16: With May 19, the day of counting is approaching, electorate in Bengal are getting more anxious than they were during the six-phase West Bengal Assembly Election 2016 that concluded on May 5. The fear of wide-spread political violence is what the people of Bengal are crippled under.
The reassurance of the ruling Trinamool Congress has the Bengal people on tenterhooks and cryptic remarks of “No Rabindra Sangeet”, “Bhojpuri songs” and “solar eclipse” are the words that are doing the rounds which mean nothing rather than retaliation and revenge after the poll results due on Thursday. Though Left Front has declared that there will be no rally in case they win.
Going by Trinamool candidate from Kamarhati, who contested from jail, said last week that there will be no “badla (revenge)”, but there will be “purna Sruya Grahan (total solar eclipse)” on May 19. He uttered those words on his way back to the jail following a health checkup only a few days ago, according to a report in NDTV.
Total solar eclipse is what CPM feels a big threat. In mythology, total solar eclipse is when the sun is wallowed by a demon whereas the Left Front’s chief ministerial candidate is Surjya Kanta Mishra and Surjya mean sun. (ALSO READ: Trinamool’s Tapas Mullick arrested for allegedly leading a mob to lynch student Kaushik Purakayastha)
Just the day election ended in West Bengal on May 5, Trinamool’s Nandigram candidate, Suvendu Adhikari confidently said, “Trinamool will win” while flashing the victory sign he added that there will be “No Rabindra Sangeet”.
Actually “No Rabindra Sangeet” is used as a code in Bengal’s political dictionary for “Let’s beat them up”. It became popular following chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s call to party workers not to hold any victory rallies but stay at home and listen to Rabindra Sangeet (songs of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore) after her historic win in 2011 marking and end to 34 years of Left Front rule.
The repeated use of the words has scared people of Bengal to no end. MLA Kalyan Banerjee recently urged to the CM in a rally in Bankura that the party workers should not be asked to chant Rabindra Sangeet after the election. “Didi, please don’t ask us to listen to Rabindra Sangeet after this poll,” he had said.
Kamarhati candidate Mitra went further in stressing on the point. “Didi, no Rabindra Sangeet this time. May be Bhojpuri songs. Also very popular,” he said.
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