Bengal has lost its taste for the Left - Times of India

Written off as recently as four years ago as a political featherweight, a euphoric Trinamool Congress has described Bengal’s civic poll results as “historic”. Some may explain the phenomenal outcome as a prelude to the ‘final march’ towards the real historic turnabout in next year’s assembly elections.

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Bengal has restlessly awaited change for more than a decade. Its people have watched the largest Communist Party in India metamorphose from a radical entity to the ‘establishment’, which cared for little other than reproducing itself in power every five years. Through that ceaseless process of reproduction of power the party nurtured a monolithic establishment, which ruled through a careful mixture of clientilism and patronage. In the aftermath of defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, CPM leaders launched a rectification drive to ‘purge’ the party of bourgeois lifestyles and corruption. But what the party has not and never will turn its attention to is the basic and flawed principle of a ‘party society’ wherein the Communist government now controls every aspect of socio-political existence in Bengal.

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