New Year Resolution?
The year hasn't started well for the ruling party in West Bengal. First, a young man named Amirul Islam killed himself by setting himself on fire in front of a local police station, stating in his suicide note that he was driven to it by constant threats from the police for daring to take on a local thug who allegedly had connections with powerful politicians belonging to the ruling party. Apparently, Amirul was a crusader against rape in the area. But even before the public outrage surrounding his death and media spotlight on the politician-police-underworld nexus could die down, TMC found itself embroiled in another incident in which rowdy party supporters -- read former TMC MLA Arabul Islam -- had senior Opposition leaders -- read CPIM's Abdul Rezzak -- packing off to hospitals after beating them black and blue.