State BJP sees silence as best way to answer censures for Govt decisions
KOLKATA: Even as Union Budget inspired expectations among the various business chambers of commerce here today with hope that if hard decisions, not populism, would give impetus to industry and `foreign investments’ though none was sure if it would script prevention of food inflation and put an end to Congress-led reforms’ prescription of jobless growth, the plight of State BJP has been that their leaders face flaks not only for inflations and economic discrimination but “setting Central Government agencies’’ on “critics who differ with them.’’ “Let us not mix up pure economics with political issues, but generally we do not go back on promises we made,’’ said a senior State BJP leader, as he was asked about Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s rolling out severe attacks on Railway Budget and setting “CBI even on Raj Bhawan (forcing out MK Narayanan).’’ Presumably the state BJP leaders not sure what exactly awaits them in Union Budget, “but we want our leaders to give us a little more time in Bengal so that we can emerge as a political alternative in present political scenario in the state.’’ This surely wouldn’t ad up to BJP newly gained popularity, admitted a political commentator here. And that’s where politics gets mixed up with economics, fear State BJP leaders who celebrated Amit Shah’s becoming party president. Apparently, while both Modi and state BJP dragged out 17.2 percent vote in the just concluded general elections, but they want both an economic impetus to state and political investments to consolidate the gains. Incidentally, all political parties’ attacks on railway budget led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (even Bengali vernaculars joining in) have added to the embarrassments of State BJP though again big business houses saw new avenues opening up for them! “But we want an economic prescription that takes care about men in their early 50s losing jobs as slowdown inspired a thesis of jobless growth,’’ said a common man who lost his job for two years without an alternative opening up for him at the time of refusing to die food inflation!
