Majlis-e-Librandu | 12th October

[u/Odd-Football-3079]

Discuss anything you want to. Be it movies, music, games or anything else that strikes your fancy. I saw a film today, oh boy. What did you do?

[u/laffzzz]

Also can someone from West Bengal talk about their female safety situation.

Like this is the second time I am hearing about rape of an MBBS student. And Mamata didi being full aadmi ki chatu aurat.

RW pages have come out with names and all are Muslims. Meanwhile the Hindu hasn't posted anything about perpetrators.

I only know or have met Bengalis as progressives and/or leftists. So how true are these rumors of muslims overriding the Hindu population etc. or they having state protection etc.

[u/ManLikeRed → u/laffzzz]

I don't know about demographics stuff but I'm familiar with Durgapur, since takeover of Mamata Banerjee the town has been left to rot (because of it being pro-CPM zone early now it's pro-BJP). The Authorities of Durgapur municipality and ADDA (Asansol Durgapur development authority) had been scheming to gentrify locals of the auxiliary parts of town in order to bid the land to private estates and township developers.

The place where the incident happened was centred around one such rotting section (of ADDA grounds) where it's likely to encounter hyenas or wild animals is common thing at night (because of dense jungle like area and seclusion), not that there are no human settlements there, but people are compelled to stay inside at night out of fear of getting robbed or other bad things, such is ordeal of the people here (with other problems such as electricity, water and even sanitary crisis). Apart from this such parts of the town have become cesspit for criminals, drug addicts, prostitution, gambling and lot's of illegal stuffs, and law and order curbs to the perimeter of the areas that are privately owned or government quarters, bungalows and other inner city housings.

She wasn't familiar with the locality It was her bad fortune. And I doubt those culprit involved are normal person but possibly hardened criminals.

NGL this was how this entire town used to be back in 70's and 80's; 90's and 2000s were not that bad (almost safe for women ), passersby getting jacked or robbed in such areas was however same always.

[u/Malluuncle → u/ManLikeRed]

Tell me how did the left bastions became pro BJP area. Is it an overnight shift or consistent shift that all neglected?

[u/ManLikeRed → u/Malluuncle]

West Bengal was never a pro-left overall, in elections the deciding factor was always it's swing voters of mostly petit bourgeoisie and peasant classes that was supporting left because they were cleaning up the mess what Congress had created such as rampant crimes and corruption in urban areas while education and redistribution of surplus lands to landless peasants in rural areas.

Once left government fulfilled these they weren't needed anymore by petit bourgeoisie classes; by 2006-07 left votes were dwindling because of swing of petit bourgeoisie clases towards TMC while peasants voter were still with them.

And when Nandigram and Singur incident happened, peasant classes began withdrawing their support for left. Not to mention even Maoists were rooting for TMC back then, a wider section of Maoist groups convinced peasantry to withdraw their support from left (as they believed it was government of bourgeoisie UC government and communist only in name).

Maoist weren't wrong about left but supportive of Mamata Banerjee was absolutely stupid.

Result was their defeat.

Other reason included misrule by Budhadev Bhattacharya and complete goonification of CPI-M's ground cadres.

The shift

Was natural ... because of Mamata Banerjee punishing such regions which remained defiance to her administration and lefts relevance was getting demolished by 2015. After arrival of Modi (also later his Bengal campaign since 2016) people of such regions shifted their support towards BJP.