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ममता बनर्जी ने इतिहास रच दिया है। कोलकाता के एक अग्रणी दैनिक ने उनकी विजय गाथा को मुख पृष्ठ पर इस शीर्षक से प्रकाशित किया है: ”कोलकाता की महारानी, अभी बंगाल की नहीं।” (Queen of Calcutta, Not of Bengal yet ).

वे संभवतया वह भी बन जाएं, उन्हें विधानसभाई चुनाव निश्चित समय से पहले कराने के मामले में धैर्य नहीं खोना चाहिए। धैर्य उनको अच्छे लाभ दे सकता है।

यदि कोलकाता का माक्र्सवादी दुर्ग ढहा है तो ममता उसमें सिर्फ निमित्त बनी है। वास्तव में उपलब्धि तो कम्युनिस्टों की स्वयं की है। ‘उपलब्धि’ नकारात्मक है: यानी लोगों से ‘कट जाना’, जैसाकि प्रकाश करात ने सही ही कहा Click to Read More

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MAMATA BANNERJI has made history. A leading Kolkata daily has front paged her victory story with the headline: “QUEEN OF CALCUTTA, NOT OF BENGAL YET”.

She may well become that also; she needs not be impatient for an Assembly encounter earlier than scheduled. Patience may pay her richer dividends.

If the Marxist citadel of Kolkata has collapsed, Mamata has served only as an instrument. The real achievement is of the Reds themselves. The ‘achievement’ is negative: ‘alienation’ from the people, as Prakash Karat has rightly commented.

Americans by themselves could never have achieved the disappearance of the gigantic U.S.S.R. empire. An unending series of Stalinist excesses, of Hungarys and Czechoslovakias, and a growing arrogance that it was only a matter of time before, as used to be the British boast in the days of U.K’s colonial dominance, the sun would never set on the Marxist empire!”

Not many soothsayers could have predicted how revolutionary 1989 would prove. This was the year that saw the Berlin Wall crumble, the U.S.S.R. disintegrate and the Cold War dramatically come to an end!

As an active participant in Indian politics since the first General Election of 1952 I cannot miss the significance of this year, 1989, for our own country as well. This year proved a turning point in national politics also.

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