Ma, Mati Ar Manush

Mamata banerjee sweeped the kolkata municipal election just to prove that marxism is no longer viable in bengal and urban bengal wants to get some momentum. Didi's slogan of 3M's or Ma, Mati and Manush has been accepted by the people of urban bengal. Not long ago Buddha babu dismissed this slogan saying "Oh! it's a jatra'.

Municipal elections are not that big in magnitude and most of the people(outside that particular municipality) are not bothered about who forms the council to administer the urban areas. But kolkata municipal elections were really important. Bangla has been under lot of media coverage- mostly for bad things- frequent bandhs, Lalgarh, Singur, Falling Industries and lowest GDP. This election, smaller in magnitude but was of utmost importance.People in delhi were also concerned about this election. Why? Well the loss of marxism shows that the decades old communist bengal is ready to rub off the rust and wants to be in motion and embrace a new life.

Here are the results for this year's civic polls in bengal

Battle for Bengal (Total 81 seats)
	Left Front	18 (-36)
	Trinamool	33 (+22)
	Congress	7

	Battle for Kolkata (Total 141 seats)
	Left	33 (-42)
	Trinamool	95 (+53)
	Congress	10 (-5)

Mamata's Ma, Mati and Manush really worked well and connected with people. But many people don't know that this indeed came from a jatra. Long back, in 1975 when mamata was 20 and buddha babu was being groomed for bigger thinbs things in life, a jatra called Ma-Mati-Manush, scripted by Bhairab Ganguly, was topping the charts in Bengal. The coinage has struck the bengal people and communists are really not happy about it. Elections are always fun to follow, people spitting on each other faces, throwing shoes on each other and giving statements and counter-statements in media. Lot's of things happens and infact those people who think that politics is no good can try to think again. These times can be really entertaining1..yes you heard it right..entertaining.

For Example, Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee during the run up to civic polls said...

“Every day, some new train is being inaugurated like duronto, uronto, jhulonto, dubonto (fast, flying, hanging, sinking). What is happening? Is this maa, mati, manush?’’

 

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