Family spat: Editorial on the exchange of fire between two factions in the Trinamul Congress
Such troubles in TMC’s First Family aren't new: they have taken place & been resolved. But the timing of the present tiff is said to be hampering the party’s preparations for LS 2024
Mamata Banerjee.File Photo. |
What is risible though is the attempt to describe the exchange of fire as an instance of ‘internal democracy’. The freedom to express opinion, especially by the rank and file, is a rarity in Indian political outfits. Regimented political entities, such as the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left outfits, take their cue from those at the top of the hierarchy. At the other end are political organisations that function around a single — singular — person or family. Traditionally, the Congress and regional parties — the Trinamul Congress, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal, among others — have belonged to this category. The BJP under Narendra Modi has also become one such entity. Here, the chain of command begins and ends with the supreme leader. Differences of opinion — ‘internal democracy’ — begin to sharpen with the weakening of the paterfamilias or, in the TMC’s case, when the materfamilias does not see eye to eye with the political heir. The lieutenants merely get to choose which leader they would side with by reading the tea leaves. This, by no stretch of the imagination, is a template of inner democracy. It has another name: factional feuding.
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