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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbvWupup9bc)

Cuttack, Odisha, India: 2nd day of All-India General Strike, February 21, 2013.

"Against price hike, entry of Big Capital in retail trade and new pension scheme and demanding social security of all workers, minimum wage of Rs.15,000, enhancement of gratuity with abolition of ceiling on bonus and PF and other burning problems, the All India General Strike was observed at Cuttack on 21st February."

Look at the number of Left Front Organisations and their cumulative registered members given below. The numbers of members are given in crores. Remember the figure 3.64 crores.

A) Krishok Sobha -1.50, B) DYFI - 0.85, C) Mohila Samity - 0.60, D) CITU - 0.17, E) SFI - 0.13, F) Agragami Kishan Sobha - 0.10, G) UTUC - 0.055, H) AITUC - 0.035, I) Other Organisations - 0.20

TOTAL  - 3.64 Crores

The postmortem of left front defeat has started. Based upon the above mentioned figure they chalked out the total number of votes they would get in the last Assembly polls. But alarmingly they got only 1.95 crore votes. Clean and clear, all their registered members did not cast in favour of the Left parties.

The  poor farmers, Adivashishs (ST) even did renewed their memberships in December last year but casted their vote against them.  The political ideology of the Left parties didn’t touch their heart anymore.

Consider the pattern of taking membership of SFI. I can remember well, when I was in the queue to submit my admission fees in my college in Class XI, I  was approached by some senior students for the membership of SFI against a some of Rupees 5 (Five). I didn’t had  least little idea of what the thing was  SFI, about their origin, their  manifesto, was it for drink or eat. I gave the money as all others in the queue. What is the meaning of his kind of membership ? The same thing applies in all of their parts.

The Left parties deviated and forgot their main political job or performance while in the hasty mood of increasing the number of their membership lists. Can you believe that against the sum of only ONE rupee anybody can get the membership of  DYFI ? All you have to do is showing a support to their policy. Is it a process of taking membership ?

Now question is why people flocked to get the membership of Left parties ? Only answer is Power. Every common man has a tendency to remain under a secured umbrella of Power. The Left parties were in the throne for the last 34 years and people ran after them either out of love or fear to get a shelter under the umbrella of safety and security.

The voters who used to love the Left Parties did cast in favour of them but most of the common man who were in their favour on list just out of fear, found an alternative and turned the colour from Red to Green.

The postmortem is not yet over. They are now getting a fishy smell. Hands of America in the technology of making Electronic Voting Machines (EVM).