⚫ Has the debt-to-GDP ratio improved in Bengal since the change of guard in 2011?
⚫ Were the zero-deficit budgets of the Left regime the result of statistical jugglery?
⚫ Has Bengal done better in terms of human development indices after 2011?
⚫ Has the rate of implementation of investment proposals improved since 2011?
⚫ Did tax reforms start in Bengal during Left rule or after that?
For the uninitiated, there have always been complaints about lack of transparency in economic data shared by successive governments in Bengal. But the residents of Khardah, a township barely 20km from the heart of Calcutta, cannot share this grouse after all they have been fed on a healthy diet of economic jargon every election season for over 34 years.