Mahua Moitra, the flagbearer of fighting a draconian BJP and its ‘fascism’ threw quite the temper tantrum in West Bengal’s Nadia district, where she had allegedly gone to boost the morale of dejected and divided TMC booth workers. The Krishnanagar TMC MP, however, soon found herself irritated at the hostility being meted out to her by local party workers, who even gheraoed her and held placards as a mark of protest. One would have thought that Mahua Moitra, the epitome of Indian liberalism, would wholeheartedly welcome such democratic protests. However, the TMC leader instead blasted out at the media and slurred them.
While Mahua’s anger was against her own party workers exercising their right to protest and express themselves freely, the media present made for good fodder, as the TMC MP shouted at the media contingent present at the scene, calling the journalists ‘do paise ke patrakar’, according to an India Today report. Some TMC supporters gathered there to protest with placards in their hands which stated that, “We don’t want the outsiders to be our president.” After throwing her temper tantrum at the media, Mahua Moitra unsurprisingly denied having insulted the fourth estate of India at all as she brazenly played the victim and said, “I didn’t say anything to anyone.”
“2 paisa media”!
Outrageous choice of words by Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra. Shows her scant regard for the 4th pillar of Democracy!
This is how leaders of an unpopular regime, fearful of electoral drubbing, try to scare down independent media. pic.twitter.com/nRhNzeWRuJ
— BJP West Bengal (@BJP4Bengal) December 6, 2020
Even as TMC workers, whose woes Mahua Moitra had allegedly gone to alleviate continued their factionalism-driven fights, the TMC MP had the temerity to say, “We are a democratic party. It’s good that they have expressed their problem. The clash was nothing but the agitation among themselves. We have discussed the matter and will solve it among us. Where the party has the hold, it is very common to have disputes among the workers. I have solved the matter and will come again in January. I want to make the booth workers strong.”
Mahua Moitra also vouched for an invisible unity prevalent among the TMC cadre on the ground, even as the party’s current city president Sukant Chatterjee has publicly acknowledged the factionalism. The TMC is currently reeling under intense factionalism and breakage of party cadre across the state of West Bengal, in the face of an unprecedented offensive being mounted by the Bhartiya Janata Party ahead of the all-important assembly election early next year, in which the saffron party is aiming to get over 200 seats on its own.
Read more: Mahua Moitra: slayer of fascists, darling of the left and alleged plagiarist.
Mahua Moitra, who is otherwise a vociferous free media proponent, like everyone should be, sees the BJP central government as the devil-incarnate, trying to continuously walkover Indian democratic ethos. Her recent temper tantrum against journalists in Bengal, however, lays bare for all to see the duplicitous hypocrite that she is.
