Dipankar Bhattacharya: ‘TMC’s incumbency was not the issue, stopping BJP was’
The Left parties have ended up with zero seats in the just-concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. The BJP’s seat tally has jumped from 3 to 77. Why did this happen? What kind of politics does the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic demand? The CPI(ML) general secretary tries to answer these questions
Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), discusses the outcome of the West Bengal Assembly elections with Nawal Kishore Kumar:
The Left parties have failed to win even a single seat in the recently concluded Assembly polls in West Bengal. What, in your view, led to this drubbing?