Mir Jaffer reincarnated

This year's puja has been one of the worst ones for Bengal in living memory.The image of the progressive Bengali has indeed taken a sever beating in the eyes of the world.The Bengali community has been at the forefront of everything that is genuinely good in Inida right from culture,litreture, cinema, music to the standard of human capital ,since the time the East India company set shop in this country. Talking of the East India company also brings me to the central character in this fiasco, who along with her hooligans has ensured that Bengal moves a couple of decades back at a time when other states are leaping forward. That person is the eternally fip flopping mamata didi. Incidentally, I myself, was a big supporter of her till a few years ago and firmly believed that it was through her, that Bengalis will finally get rid of the decades old communist bogey.That was of course until she realised that flip flopping on every issue under the sun is her political gurumantra and better sense dawned on me. To me and to many others who follow the politics of Bengal closely, her latest agitation over Singur was another political gimmick to get some extra footage in the news media. I certainly never believed that she will carry it this far, that she will actually sacrifice the interests of the overwhelming majority of the state for a few more expected votes. The loss of the Nano project is a much bigger loss than the Rs.1500 crore that Tata was supposed to invest there and the jobs that have been lost by the hugely skilled but deprived work force of the state. The beating that the image of the state has received will take many decades to undo especially in an era where there is so much cut throat competition between the states to bag every additional piece of investment. Thus ,for the great disservice that she has done to her own people and the great shame that she has brought to the image of the progressive Bengali I will have no qualms in equating her with, unarguably, the most viled of all traitors in the history of India, Mir Jaffer. For people who dont remember their history too well, he was the same guy, who, as the leader of Nawab Siraj U Daulla's army, turned against him and fought for Robert Clive resulting in the victory of the East India company in the battle of Plassey. This victory laid the foundation of the 200 year old British Raj in India. Who knows if there was no character such as Mir Jaffer in history we might never have had the Raj in this country. To me and to many others like me, mamata has done a modern day Mir Jaffer and she deserves to be thrown out of the conscience of the collective Bengali mind for this act of treason. If I ever get a chance to meet her, will ask her the following questions:
1) Doesnt she know that considering the average size of land holding in he state of WB, a farmer can never ever dream of taking care of the needs of his family through farming alone?

...land is an instrument that has a lot of emotional attachment for the farmers, and mamata used this emotional angle to persuade the unwilling farmers to toe her line in spite of the fact that if a proper cost benefit analysis was done for an individual farmer, the benefit of giving the land for the factory would far outweigh the cost of not being able to use the land for agricultural purposes.

2) Doesnt she know that even though Bengalis are no less skilled than any other community in India still the average Bengali has not been doing as well as others because there simply are not enough of employment opportunities inside Bengal and the Tata plant along with the ancillary units would have at least made a start towards redressal of this problem of unemployment?

...its for people like her that we have no option but to stay outside our own state to earn a decent living.

Yet I just pray that I never get to meet her and even if I do by some chance, she becomes an un relevant , un important entity by then...