Banerjee, Sumanta creator text xu| 2003 continuing ng p.864-65. 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 180718