How Bengal has taken to a piscine electoral ploy, like maachh to h2o
2 min read
In what could aptly be explained as a fishy tale in far more techniques than a single, Trinamool Congress’s main, redoubtable Mamatadi, has updated her earlier rallying cry of Ma, Maati, Manush elevated versus the setting up of an car plant in Singur, in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, by appending Maachh to the threepronged trishul of TMC.
This finny addition that has additional a piscine punch to Trinamool’s electoral marketing campaign is an emotive reaction to Modi who, inadvertently, trod on Bengal’s style buds if not toes, by observing that RJD’s Tejashwi was noticed in a video clip clip feeding on fish for the duration of Navratri. Tejashwi’s clarification that the clip in issue experienced been taken ahead of Navratri, when quite a few eschew non-veg fare, did very little to pour mustard oil on the troubled and turbulent waters of Hooghly. “They (BJP) will dictate what you take in for lunch and dinner,” West Bengal’s CM vociferated at an election rally in Cooch Behar.
For the true-blue Bengali, fish is not a comestible but a covenant, a wholly grail to be pursued, and not just a consummation devoutly to be wished but a consumption to be denied only at the jeopardy of the issuer of the denial.
In the course of the 1950s and 1960s when industry manipulation or disruption of materials established a shortage and brought on a consequent rise in the value of hilsa, the significantly-beloved ilish, which is the Divine Being’s gift to the Bengali palate, tramcars would be set ablaze, not in a bonfire of the vanities but as a fiery expression of community-spirited ire voiced in the rousing chorus of ‘Cholbe na! Cholbe na!’ It won’t do! It won’t do!
However, it remains to be seen if Mamatadi’s piscatorial ploy of casting the net and angling for a massive catch at the ballot box will confirm effective or close up as maachh ado about nothing at all.
Fb
Twitter
Linkedin
Email
This piece appeared as an editorial belief in the print version of The Instances of India.
Finish OF Write-up
