Bengali left: from pink to saffron?
By: Banerjee, Sumanta.
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ArticlePublisher: 2003Description: p.864-65.Subject(s): West Bengal - Politics and government | Politics and government
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Economic and Political WeeklySummary: With this government's failure to stem retrenchment in the industrial field, sustain its few achievements in the countryside, and provide basic amenities and a clean administration for all its citizens, the picture is indeed bleak in West Bengal. In order to explain away this failure, the CPI (M) has today found a scapegoat - the Bangladeshi infiltrators. But such a choice has ominous implications - given the tense communal situation in the country today, as well as the historical background of Hindu-Muslim relations in West Bengal. - Reproduced.
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With this government's failure to stem retrenchment in the industrial field, sustain its few achievements in the countryside, and provide basic amenities and a clean administration for all its citizens, the picture is indeed bleak in West Bengal. In order to explain away this failure, the CPI (M) has today found a scapegoat - the Bangladeshi infiltrators. But such a choice has ominous implications - given the tense communal situation in the country today, as well as the historical background of Hindu-Muslim relations in West Bengal. - Reproduced.
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