00943pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002200040245004000062260000900102300001400111362001000125520055800135650004200693650002800735773003400763180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aBanerjee, Sumanta  aBengali left: from pink to saffron?  c2003  ap.864-65.  a1 Mar  aWith 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.  aWest Bengal - Politics and government  aPolitics and government  aEconomic and Political Weekly