The day the music died” (April 20) is a warning on what the people of West Bengal will have to face if the Trinamool Congress comes to power. As Kabir Suman has experienced, the Trinamool Congress is as autocratic a party as the CPI(M) is. Suman’s decision to join Mamata Banerjee and then his slow disenchantment make for a very sad story since there must be countless other Sumans out there whose stories are not yet heard. We have already seen how the Trinamool chief is running the railway ministry and we have also seen how she is driving investment out of the state. What she did in Singur is well-known and now it appears the dedicated freight corridor project of her ministry is all set to go the same way since the minister has said that the alignment of the corridor will be changed if land-losers object.
Ajoy Basu, New Delhi
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