Taxi Thugs

We are happy that many responses received due to misery in taxi strikes & unnecessary taxi refusal legalized by TMC. We seek your responses as well from article . we are putting up an experience from our reader.

From time immemorial, mode of transport has played a pivotal role in every human’s life. From horse back rides to carts, from palki to the ever innovative and improving modern day modes of transport.

In the South Eastern part of Asia we have a country called “BHARAT”, the land of varieties and

Wonders. Today we are standing at a juncture wherein are on the verge of losing both.

In the eastern part of Bharat we have a state called “WEST BENGAL” way behind it’s counterparts in all aspects of life. Looking back, in all fairness it started with the youth of the state being repulsive towards hard work and always engaging in dharnas with irrelevant and illogical demands making a Gateway to those ready to earn and form a nexus.

Having an approximate population of 9 crores, with not even 1 % paying Income Tax with a decreasing source and scope of earning ( though the country’s growth rate is increasing with signs of a more healthier one in future), an Income for which they have to go through a daily ordeal of commuting to and fro to their “Karmasthal”  with frequent strikes, refusal to go to the commuters destination and daily misbehavior of the transport staff. Amongst the wide variety of options available most prefer a taxi. To pay that Income Tax, we are at the mercy of these thugs.

With 60,000 + Yellow cabs and more application for licensees for the same, the government instead started issuing the NO REFUSAL CABS  in white, in it’s perusal of continuing to patronize the cabbies, we are now accustomed to their hooliganism . Most are from outside West Bengal, have formed a nexus so strong, that it is almost next to impossible to crack the same by any party whether in power or opposition as both the operators and the in-charges are from the same community and state mostly Bihar and Jharkhand.

Today, not just the commuters are at their mercy even the ruling party is in the same boat. Nothing satisfies these wolves. Giving a dual blow by to the already fund starved state, they are not only extracting the hard earned money of the less than 1% tax payers, also draining it all to their respective states.

The concept of appeasing a fraction of the voters at the cost of the majority (nothing related to CASTE OR RELIGION) has become the Bible of this day for all political parties across BHARAT. All of whom take the silent majority for granted and unabashedly appease a PRE– SCHOOL Mini PARK of the voters.

The day is not far off when the silent majority will revolt and teach the politicians the lesson of their lives and generations to come.

A recent example: Recently though, a taxi strike called off, most cabbies plied on the road only to refuse ferrying the commuters.

Our local cabbie a genuine man, whom almost all residents of the locality book in advance for occasions, was returning home after dropping an elderly couple at the air port. Near RUBY HOSPITAL, wherein on any day the Taxi drivers are at their best in displaying epitome of misbehavior both verbally and via physical gestures, saw 7-9 Taxies standing with the YELLOW GLOW SIGN ON and few feet away an elderly couple with medical packets in hand. When our cabbie agreed to drop them, the others gheraoed and started to deflate his taxi tyres and pulled out the elderly couple out of his cab. His plea fell to deaf ears and was threatened with dire consequences if helped.

Such is the state that no one has the courage to crack and do always with this nexus needless to say it would be foolish to approach the hopeless and termite infected Police Force of the State.

Ask any commuter of the harassment faced at the Howrah Railway Station wherein tickets are given only if the cabbie in line is agreeing to go to the destination requested for. Such is the treatment showered that it would be an understatement to say, a stray dog is treated well since both the taxi drivers and the booth operators are from the same region.