Biman Down In Alms

It is amazing why someone who proclaims himself to be Communists before anything else, like to strike the pose of a beggar. Biman Bose's pre-Kolkata municipal poll eye-washing stunt of pooling alms from people to bear the cost of his legal wrangles consequent to his irresponsible criticism of Calcutta High Court judge, Mr. Amitava Lala's decision, is ridiculous. And the CPI(M)'s supporting him in this regard is deplorable. How dare these people hope to tax people with the burden of their own nuisance? The irony of the entire gimmick is that people can very well see through Bose's as also his party's materialistic motive of winning voters' sympathy before the elections. Whatever this may be, it is certainly far off from Marxian Communism. Can hypocrisy be better expressed?