Hammered and Stricken ; Nothing has Hurt the Cpi(M) More in the State As Its Handling of the Lalgarh Seige and the Maoists. For the Left, the Time to Learn From Their Mistakes Seems to Be Long Over.
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History often remembers certain years as landmarks. One such turning point for West Bengal was in 1977 when the CPI(M)-led Left Front came to power. Thirty-two years on, 2009 may well be remembered as the year that saw the beginning of the end of three decades of the Leftist stranglehold on the state.
The Leftists' dreams of forming a government at the Centre lie shattered, industrialisation is a bubble that burst with Nandigram and Singur and its rural strongholds are all but lost. Images of top CPI(M) leaders' houses being razed to the ground by enraged ultras send shivers down the spines of the bravest of cadres.See the full content of this document
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Hammered and Stricken ; Nothing has Hurt the Cpi(M) More in the State As Its Handling of the Lalgarh Seige and the Maoists. For the Left, the Time to Learn From Their Mistakes Seems to Be Long Over.
The robust CPI(M) of yore is on the sickbed. Says Biman Bose, CPI(M) state secretary, "We could not gauge the people's mood. A section of party functionaries had started to live life king-size in tune with the neoeconomic and consumerist model."
The signs of the Left losing its grip first surfaced with the Nandigram land acquisition fiasco in 2007. In the police firing that fol...See the full content of this document
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