The Left may have witnessed mixed fortunes in the March-April Assembly elections but for CPI national council secretary and Rajya Sabha member Binoy Viswam, the biggest lesson of the May 2 results is that “the BJP can be defeated”.
“The people are no longer ready to succumb to the ill-motivated designs of the BJP,” Viswam told The Telegraph.
The Left Democratic Front made history in Kerala by becoming the first formation to retain power in 44 years, while in Bengal the Left Front scored a duck for the first time ever.
“The most vital difference is that in Kerala, the fight was led by the Left, and it could tell people that it was the most dependable alternative to the Right-wing forces,” Viswam said.
Brigade face-off: The optics of mega rallies in Bengal
Brigade face-off: The optics of mega rallies in Bengal
Set in the heart of Kolkata, the Brigade Parade Ground is known to measure the appeal of political parties vying for power in West Bengal.
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Turnout at PM Modi s BJP rally at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata on Sunday (Photo Credits: PTI)
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CM Mamata Banerjee led a protest march in Siliguri against rise in fuel prices
Left-Congress-ISF held a joint rally in Kolkata s Brigade Ground on February 28
Politically knowledgeable denizens of Kolkata firmly believe that a meeting at the Brigade is a different thing .
Congress leader Anand Sharma on Tuesday called party colleague Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury s remark against him unfortunate and said his statement about the party s tie-up with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) for West Bengal Assembly election should be seen in the context of history.
What s Determining the BJP s Prospects in West Bengal?
BJP leaders including state president Dilip Ghosh on a Poribortan Yatra . Photo: Twitter/@BJP4India
Politics28/Feb/2021
Kolkata: Elections are crystal-ball-gazing times. Predicting how voters will exercise their choice is tricky, more so when the topography of politics is changing from a tradition of conscious and consensually managed secular competition to polarisation along communally divided identities.Â
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has succeeded in installing itself as the pivot in all conversations, which going by the reputation of West Bengal as highly politically conscious, could be at least once every day, at home, at work, travelling or shopping. In building a perception about its chances of winning the 2021 state assembly elections, the BJP has made the act of choosing an almost absolutely predictable event, converting the process into a confirmation of what the so-called âeveryoneâ knows.
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Mainstream, VOL LIX No 6, New Delhi, January 23, 2021
Communalising Muslim politics is dangerous for Bengal’s social order | Arun Srivastav
Friday 22 January 2021
by Arun Srivastava
Brushing aside the suggestions of left and democratic parties, even the proposition of the CPI(ML) liberation, the CPI(M), big brother of the Indian Commuist parties has decided to enter into alliance with the Congress with the sole purpose of ensuring the defeat of Mamata Banerjee. The reason for opposing Mamata is debateable and cannot be justified from the Marxist point of view. It is the whim of some top state leaders of the party that prompted it to oppose Mamata, when the politics is taking a worse path in recent decades.