![]() ![]() And CPM’s presence in the INDIA camp along with TMC is only likely to prevent the Left’s slow resurgence in the state. Many Left supporters are still not ready to return as they still view the BJP as the main Opposition against the TMC. ![]() But the elections too showed the limitations of the Left. This was evident in the recently concluded three-tier panchayat elections, marred with strong allegations of rigging by the ruling TMC. However, despite all of this, after the BJP failed to win the 2021 state assembly elections, a section of the Left supporters started to return to the Left. The Left strategists shouldn’t forget that it is this staunch anti-TMC stand that forced a large section of its support base to shift towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the 2016 state assembly elections, where the strategy of CPM leaders to align with its once-arch rival Congress failed miserably. It has to be mentioned that Jungle Mahal comprises four districts of the state - West Midnapore, Jhargram, Bankura and Purulia. ![]() The CPM had then alleged that there was a secret alliance between Maoists and the TMC. Not only this, even before the change of power in 2011, many Left workers and supporters were killed by Maoists in Jungle Mahal, when parts of it were under the influence of Maoists. Since then, many Left workers and supporters have been killed and many houses have been burnt. That’s why they have always opposed Mamata Banerjee-led TMC and have faced attacks for this staunch opposition since the TMC came to power in 2011. The “liberals” and the Left-leaning intelligentsia of the country may continue to support TMC as a “secular party” but for the common Left workers and supporters proudly holding the red flag having hammer and sickle, TMC remains an anti-democratic party. It is because the rank and file of the Left has been facing attacks by TMC-affiliated people on the ground. ![]() The pictures of the party’s national general secretary Sitaram Yechury along with Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the meetings of the INDIA bloc didn’t go well with the ground workers and supporters of the Marxist party. ![]()
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