00994pab a2200169 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Banerjee, Sumanta Bengali left: from pink to saffron? 2003 p.864-65. 1 Mar 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. West Bengal - Politics and government Politics and government Economic and Political Weekly 55707 55707 55707 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 38, Issue no: 9 AR56152 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR