Kolkata, July 12: Life is coming full circle for the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist in West Bengal.
There was a time when the Marxists had shown scant regard for human opposition in their relentless quest for rural power. Today, they claim to be hapless victims of the same policy, with Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress scripting the story.
This one began with Marxist party workers massacring 11 landless labourers at Nanoor in Birbhum district in 2000. It is fast approaching a rather different climax.
Business Standard brings you a three-part series on how the Trinamool is gaining political supremacy through these tried and tested methods in rural Bengal.
Violence lurks in every corner of Nanur, in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. It is the latest battlefield in the ongoing turf war between the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist and its main political rival, the Trinamool Congress.
–Agencies–