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Bengal’s political pitch is a turner Swapan Dasgupta   |     |   Published 04.03.21, 04:59 AM For political parties in West Bengal, a rally at the Brigade Parade Ground on the Calcutta Maidan has a special significance. For the Left, the significance has assumed the status of a special pilgrimage a reason why the ailing Buddhadeb Bhattacharya despaired over his inability to attend the February 28 rally. With nostalgia in plentiful supply in recent years, veteran communists have created legends around the Brigade meetings. They look back wistfully at the time the rising communist party accorded an ecstatic welcome to Nikita Khrushchev the then leader of the socialist ‘fatherland’ during his visit to Calcutta in November 1955. And they set their attendance standards by the estimated 11 or 12 lakh people who attended the

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