Ominous message

Sir, - One swallow doesn't make a summer. But it may be a tell- tale of coming events casting their shadows. So is the ominous message from Panskura. The invincibility of any party or a coalition is only a myth. What is blasphemous today will be an autonomous truth of tomorrow. The idea of Mahajot was dismissed as a mega joke by the CPI(M). But as has now been proved, it is a seasoned demarche.

Had it not been for the shallow-thinking of the (mis)leaders of the Congress who put a spoke into the wheel of the formation of the Mahajot the result would have been spectacular. While Mr. Basu has described the result as a grave mistake of the electorate, Ms. Mamata has termed it as righting a wrong of the past. The question posed by Ms. Mamata was this: how many new industries and foreign investors had made a beeline to Bengal during the CPI(M)'s tenure and how many existing ones had folded up or migrated. The same question has its relevance in Kerala. When last week Mr. S. M. Krishna of Karnataka celebrated a jamboree of a formidable array of foreign investors in Bangalore, the CPI(M) here demonstrated its tour de force by hacking to death a BJP worker near Trichur. No industrialist in his right mind will ever try his fortune in any God-forsaken State, said an industrialist.

S. P. Nayar,

Guruvayur (Kerala)

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