Recently, Mamta Banerji has been in news for having requested for SP alliance for the upcoming state elections (Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, etc). As funny as it may sound it indicates the nervousness the Bengal ruler is currently undergoing. But why so? What happened to the talks of grand propaganda that the TMC so boosted off, months back? Mahua Moitra, the popular TMC cadre has been repeatedly contradictory to her previous statements, is she under pressure, why so?
Mahua Moitra recently commented, that, “INC should alliance with us, to defeat the BJP.” She is trying to accentuate the same old argument, of how Congress is the reason for all problems, thereby saying, if BJP wins, TMC won’t be held accountable, for INC wasn’t willing to alliance for its ego. After all, TMC is a regional party, what much can it do?
That’s a narrative, the neoliberal would fall to, for Congress has been shaped to suit best as a punching bag. Lest, we forget that the same party that has a regional leader aspiring to be PM, can willfully choose to provoke defection in light of the national crisis, can of course not be power-hungry. For that matter, the media chose to portray TMC, the representative of the third front, as a favour that has been forced to rise to populism, for of course the congress’s failure of opposition. The supposed evidence that has been attached here, is the recent defections from Congress namely Saket Gokhale and other liberals, hence, suggesting that a regional party is in a far better condition than the national opposition.
But it’s not a favour, and ideally, this shouldn’t be deemed as competition either. When glasses will break, all persons under the roof would be affected.
What the TMC is thus wanting is to create a dual narrative to scapegoat the congress. For instance, if it wins, the congress would be rebuked on two grounds, that being failure to be a proper alternative to the BJP, sugar-coated with a regional party’s strength to defeat an old national party, and second, being equal to BJP. The former narrative is already in process of being normalized by the media, however, the second is the new one that has risen, that comes from the belief that the congress is naive but not fool to lose everything in a do-or-die situation, it must be planned for multiple defections have taken place (again reshaping the internal conflict stigma). The attempt to impose such a narrative is even more evident, from General Secretary Abhishek Banerji’s statement, “Every vote to BJP is a vote to INC.”
The switch to “scapegoat Congress” noesis from “blame Rahul” theory, comes with a conscious denial of Congress’s furthermore better position as an opposition, and saturated ignorance. It is that conscious decision that willfully chooses to overlook its privilege, and tactfully endorse a wrong idea, that being HATE here, in its metamorphic sense. It is that upper-middle-class attitude that reaches the zenith of order not via prejudice but privilege.
Besides, the TMC inclination here serves as a favourable substitute to the Indian Neutraphobia, for it neither declares itself to be pro-left or pro-right, and we Indians out of our conscious privilege overlook the centre-right agenda.
Rahul here stands as the middle line, which is both inevitable and It is this congenial politics that hurt the liberal conscience.
Tmc-ism goes down to our conscious ignorance in daily lives, in complete denial of pathos. The attitude of silent tolerance of injustice, and glorification of neutrality, has helped shape majoritarianism.
Lest the dream of perfect politics took the form of sinister governance.
In a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – an oracular God-like Mahua Moitra was able to project a convincing utopia.
None of us wants to acknowledge and take the responsibility of having this murderer in power. Blaming the opposition is not an output of any political observation;
For that matter, it is a form of self-gratification, in denial of our elitist prejudice & apoliticism.
