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Like Modi’s BJP in India, Basu’s CPI(M) in West Bengal was both brilliant at winning elections and incompetent at governance.

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View: The real poriborton Bengal needs is freeing grassroots politics from party grip SECTIONS Share Synopsis In the fast-changing political dynamics of the state, there is a consensus that the systematic rigging and violence during the 2018 panchayat election was a watershed moment that triggered political change. It was after this that the thick social base of the Left decided to shift over to the BJP as the former was considered incapable of taking on the repressive power of the incumbent regime. Reuters While pollsters and political pundits are busy speculating about various electoral out...

The real poriborton Bengal needs is freeing grassroots politics from party grip April 3, 2021, 11:03 PM IST The writer is a political analyst associated with Peoples Pulse While pollsters and political pundits are busy speculating about various electoral outcomes in Bengal, there seems to be one thing they all seem to agree on — the colossal weakening of the incumbent Trinamool Congress in recent years. ​The argument that pro-Trinamool analysts are employing is that the residual charisma of Mamata Banerjee may spring a surprise on May 2, the overa...

We Cannot Ignore the Left’s Role in Fostering Soft Hinduisation in Bengal In blithely placing the blame for religious polarisation on Mamata Banerjee, CPI-M has refused to consider its own failure in fighting Hindu Right tendencies that have long existed in Bengal. CPI(M) supporters at a public rally in Bengal. Credit: Reuters Politics14/Mar/2021 Whatever the outcome less than two months from now, Bengal’s keenly contested assembly elections – one of a kind in recent political history – forces a rethink on issues once believed to have been done and dusted in the state. Man...