I am posting a link to an article in Economic Times about Politics in West Bengal.
Bucolic Bengal
Though Bengal practices electoral democracy, its politics is essentially undemocratic, involving a great deal of violence and coercion in rural Bengal. And Bengal is largely rural. Earlier, the CPM used to send out goons to capture entire areas — villages, mohallas, districts — in what is called "elaka dokhol", which loosely translates as turf capture.
By 2010, the Left started losing its goons, who migrated to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) sensi ..
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Despite Trinamool?s bravado, Left parties can not be written off in West Bengal - The Economic Times
This is not Democracy.
Bucolic Bengal
Though Bengal practices electoral democracy, its politics is essentially undemocratic, involving a great deal of violence and coercion in rural Bengal. And Bengal is largely rural. Earlier, the CPM used to send out goons to capture entire areas — villages, mohallas, districts — in what is called "elaka dokhol", which loosely translates as turf capture.
By 2010, the Left started losing its goons, who migrated to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) sensi ..
Read more at:
Despite Trinamool?s bravado, Left parties can not be written off in West Bengal - The Economic Times
This is not Democracy.
