TMC has appointed many on temporary jobs in municipalities and the likes. Meager salary of few thousands. One of their job requirement is to attend all TMC rallies in their neighborhoods. This is the secret of the large crowds they get, none of that is spontaneous.
If you have heard the speeches of any current Trinamuli leader you would know that those have nothing to hold crowd attention other than financial rewards. To be fair, this may hold for ruling parties everywhere.
Once they became the ruling party, CPIM used to get massive crowds in Brigade luring people from villages with the promise of a paid trip to Calcutta for sight seeing.
Before CPIM got power, for every massive rally, they used to go around in the neighborhood collecting “ruti “ s (breads) to feed the attendees. Part of that was genuine because they didn’t have much money then, part was enlisting public support & an effective way at that.
If you contribute your homemade rutis to your neighborhood boys moving from home to home for those rutis, their party immediately becomes your party. That is, the concept of “আমাদের দল”, “our party”. This never happens for a wealthy party, but an upcoming 1 with modest resources
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