The chapter on the Marichjhapi massacre was torn from history books in such a way that no one even noticed it was missing. The story of thousands of Bengali Hindu refugees from Bangladesh being killed by the Left Front government in Bengal in 1979 is rarely discussed. This is how eyewitnesses recount the death and destruction.
CPM leader Biman Bose said the Left-Congress alliance has a better chance of winning the upcoming Bengal Assembly elections than the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Prasada alleged that the BJP and the TMC are interested in taking the focus away from real issues because they want to hide the failures of their governments .