Red is after all not a very appealing color... Not always

In my previous post I talked about how our Hon’ble Chief Minister is a very literary minded person with very delicate tastes in art and culture. His adda venue is Nandan where he drops by to enjoy the environment and discuss literature and politics… Blah blah blah.
And the very day, in the afternoon, we receive horrifying news of villagers falling victims to piercing bullets that were shot through their bodies like rag dolls being torn apart. And this incident, too, very unfortunately happened under the rule of the same CM. The police “needed to restore law and order” in Nandigram, the next venue for the SEZ.
Industrialization is an important step for every economy and its people and is not always a very welcome change, as we have seen in the recent times. No change is ever accepted with arms wide open and without apprehension, but there are ways of easing it into a people. And flexing of muscles surely can’t be one of them. How can you justify the use of force when you are encroaching on one’s own property to evict the person? The bloodbath that Nandigram witnessed two days ago has no excuse. Using rubber bullets and tear gas shells is one thing, to disperse an angry mob, but to use live ammunition and dismiss them completely from the drudgery of life is completely another. These poor people were only trying to save the only known source of their livelihood. Were there any open talks with the Government regarding the kind of benefit that they would receive once the SEZ has been set up and work started on the plot? It is a rhetorical question that I ask.
A government cannot boast of modernization and a successful economy if its hands are stained with the blood of innocent people. Our ruling party seems to take its official color a tad bit seriously. Where is the people friendly image that your Government has been posing all this time Mr. CM? Has the sense of power made you heady with success? Or is it that after three decades of your rule you have decided to take your own people for granted? Just because we have voted for you and brought you into power time and again, does not mean that we have become dependent on you and lost our voice of protest.
I have believed in the ruling party for as long as I can remember, but do not test our patience Budhha babu. We have known you as a sensitive and sensible person, and have left the ruling power in the Left hands… and this was done by choice and not by force. And though it has been long since we had eyes for only the sickle and the hammer, don’t you for once think that we have lost the power to look elsewhere.
After the horrifying incident, a minimum that was expected from the Government was a deep and profound apology at the loss of so many innocent lives, and so brutally indeed. But ego has been known to bring down many a Heracles, and such seems to be the case with the ruling party. Today the situation has such arisen that even the most ardent fan of the red club is seeing red at its actions.
Common Budhha Babu, show us some of the sensitiveness that makes you a cut above the rest of those hard hearted politicians who speak on a public forum only to gain votes, and see campaigning in the burning sun as a means to their selfish ends. We never knew you to be like that. Bring on that charm, play it all over… To err is human, Mr. CM… give us the wise old man, white haired, and clad in white traditional clothes. We do not want the callous politician that is trying to raise its ugly head within you. Make us believe in you all over again. The state needs you to hold its hand and bring it forward from darkness unto light, and not vice versa. Go on apologize for the atrocities committed by your men in uniform, and start all over again.
We still have eyes only for the sickle and hammer.