By Soumitra Bose+Mukesh Kumar Sinha
Original in Bengali which West Bengal Chief Minister sang in impeccable style-cum-gesticulations in Jorasanko House of Bengali Poet RabindraNath Tagore : “Jharo jharo borise baridhara.
Hay pathobasi, hay gatihin, hay grihohara.
Phire baiu hahasware, dake kare janohin aasim prantare
Rajani aadhara.
Aadhira jamuna taranga aakula akula re, timirodukula re.
Nibiro nirod gagone garogaro garoje saghane,
Chanchalchapala chamoke nahi sasitara”.
The Same Translated in English : (CEASELESS is THE welter of rain that wearies the sky.
Alas for the forsaken! Alas for the homeless wanderer!
The shrieks of the wind die away in sobs and sighs.
What flying phantom does it pursue across the pathless wild?
The night is hopeless like the eyes of the blind.
Alas for the forsaken! Alas for the homeless wanderer!
The waves are frantic in the river lost in the shoreless dark.
The thunder growls, the lightning flashes its teeth.
The lights of the stars are dead.
Alas for the forsaken! Alas for the homeless wanderer! )
Current guffaw-evoking Parody of original Bengali lyrics (touch of double entendre included, according to all and sundry) freewheeling all through labyrinthine BurraBazar, BouBazaar, Esplanade, Chowringhee, Belvedere Road, Free School Street, Rippon Street, Loudon Street, Dalhousie Square, now spreading on to BaghBazar, ShyamBazar, Khagen Das Road, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Street, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Hastings, Elgin Lane/Road, Tollyganj, NeemaiChandra Ghosh Lane, Harish Chandra Chatterjee Street, Harish Chandra Banerjee Street, Harish Chandra Ganguly Lane, Garcha First Lane, Garcha Second Lane, etc : “Geera, Geerao Jamkar Paanee; Hey Chief Minister, Hey Mamata, Hey Dictator/Corrupt; Paanee Geeraaoge toh Lamba Se Lamba Bhee Khara Rahega; Shaan Se Kahega, Ooncha Hai Mera Shaan Se; Jeetna Bhee Paanee Aayey, Lamba Chota Nahee Hoga; Chota Lamba Zaroor Hoga, Yehee to Chamatkar Hai Ees Paanee Ka…Geeraao, Geeraao, Geeraate Raho”).
Butt of (comical, disparaging) joke (not all of it innocent though) in all strata of Kolkata (while writing this, its spreading like wildfire in Bordhoman, Asansol, Birbhum, Nadia, Medinipur, Bankura and other districts and their hamlets in all nooks and corners (en masse laughter there insidiously pervade !). Intelligentia (how many are there really?), mighty disturbed, destabilized, deranged, derailed from their equilibrium of usual, normal equanimity are now seriously wondering when will the end of present Government in the state will materialize in reality making way for serious government.
They’ve not yet received any answer.
At the same time, it is increasingly becoming clear(er) that Reverse Counting of Trinamool Congress Governmenrt has started in fullest; any moment the Government will be forced to relinquish office or will be ejected from Nabanna/Writer’s Building. Available reports suggest, Governor Kesri Nath Tripathi has finalized all papers to do the needful relating to QED to Mamata Banerjee Government. Many Mamata-Ministers have already met him assuring him of supporting the next/new Government and full cooperation to him and his implementation of Official Rules as laid down.
Among those who’re ready to put in their papers include Ministers Rachpal Singh, Arup Ray, Sabitri Mitra, Jyotirmoy Kar, Manish Gupta, Amit Mitra, Shankar Chakraverty, Sadhan Pande, Goutam Deb, Moloy Ghatak, Jyotipriya Mallik, Bratya Basu…and so many others including ministers, MLAs. They have already directly or thru their emissaries (including their wives/women pals/women chums/women emissaries/ women confidantes/women imported from Bangladesh/women collected from Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Fazilka, Abohar etc in Punjab border districts/women from Mumbai, Maharashtra/ women from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana) have established contact (to avoid identification/s) with BJP Top Brass. (Interestingly, no Delhi-women were utilized because of fear of their identification, confide Trinamool Congress insiders) have established 1-to-1 rapport with State BJP along with National BJP. They have been ordered to wait-n-watch-and-not-behave-impatiently-unlike typical Bengalis. They’re always Rajdhani Express without any slightest purpose, observe BJP insiders.
Meanwhile, at the time of writing, grumbling, groaning, grinning, grimacing Mukul Banerjee has air dashed to Kolkata after staying in New Delhi for more than a month at a stretch. He is known for not staying in the capital for more than an hour. During Parliament-sessions also, as an MP, he’s always engrossed in Kolkata, West Bengal, Trinamool Congress. His operating from Kolkata as Union Railways Minister is even today well known, absolutely fresh (tarotaazaa, according to Rail Bhavan insiders) in politically vibrant Delhiites’ mind.
Before leaving for Kolkata, satisfaction-oozing (not with Trinamool Congress-Mamata Banerjee-Abhijeet Banerjee trio but with BJP Supremo “Dada AmitBhai ShahJee”, Prime Minister “NarendraBhai DamodarBhai ModiJee”, let that be fully clear!) trim-n-fit Mukul Banerjee told JUST IN PRINT : “I will speak everything in the coming days. Presently, I am off to Kolkata where I’ve not gone for a long time. Let me go there and see what’s going on there. I’ll come back to you, that’s for sure.”
In Kolkata Airport, scurrying Mukul Banerjee said: “I’m here to do what I’m being told to do.” By whom, your guess is as good as mine.
Jigsaw Puzzle, eh? Ought to be. Teeming rumours have it, Mukul Banerjee will give final shape, size, color, flavor, fervor, camouflage to sure-to-be BJP-backed Amit Mitra Government in place of mamata Banerjee to whom, Shah already said : “ Chor-ee-eh Didi Chor-ee-eh, Bhaag-ee-eh Didi Bhaag-ee-eh.” Its coming true now.
State BJP under the leadership of President Rahul Sinha (see his interview) is in full scale league with Trinamool Congress’ all strata leaders. He has openly invited them to join the BJP. Revealingly, many of them have already joined the BJP, many are regularly joining the party and many are all set to join the party any day now. They are deliberately joining the BJP in phases so that there is a continuous wind in favor of the BJP in the state, its people now fully known to be fickle minded.
Maverick Mukul is known to be an adroit, (ambi)dexterous “Organisation Man” (credit for jampacked Trinamool Congress goes to him and none else; he will now redirect them to the BJP, say his confidantes who’ve already started mobilizing people in favor of the BJP in the state).
Needless to say, Jhoro, Jhoro, Jol nowis fully synonymous with Mamata Banerjee. Does she have any choice?
