Even after polls, the political game is still on in Bengal

Call it Great Indian Political Theatre or something else! Even after two months of high voltage and high decibel West Bengal Legislative Assembly polls, one gets to see some such interesting political theaters being staged almost on a regular basis.

And no negative connotations please. Some of these one act or many act plays also mark the return of political wits, political satires and sarcasm, a rare element in today's political sphere.

Consider what former Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha MP, who is now party's state secretary, Kunal Ghosh did one day ago. Unlike most of his political peers and bete noires, Ghosh did not take the most common route being traversed by others to launch some political protests (like rallies, burning of effigies and so on), Ghosh walked into a petrol pump in downtown Kolkata. A media entourage just followed him. It was almost like a well scripted reality show.

Ghosh asked the uniformed guys working in the petrol pump prices of petrol and diesel and asked if these prices were putting an ever increasing burden on the consumers' wallet. He then sprung in more surprises. He suddenly started shouting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan and then innocuously asked the same guys if the fuels would now be available at a discounted rate, now that he had proved himself to be a 'Ram Bhakt' (a devotee of Lord Rama).

The answer, as expected, was in the negative. Ghosh was not expecting a drop in the price only for shouting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogan either. But then, that was the message he wanted to put across- even Bhakts are not spared when it comes to suffering caused by different policies of the BJP government.

Few days ago the same TMC leader (Ghosh) had gone to solicitor general Tushar Mehta's Delhi residence, apparently with the intention of handing over some letter, without any prior appointment. His real agenda was to drive home the point that no one can go inside the solicitor general's residence without prior and proper appointment and thereby pooh BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's claims (and Mr Mehta's claims as well) in this regard. Ghosh had proved his points with a dash of sarcasm on both the counts.

TMC had used the 'Khela Hobe' jingle quite successfully before the polls, which also was an act of adding a dash of humour, fun and entertainment in otherwise dull and often violent politics. It seems that even after the polls, the game is still on! More game to be played and watched.