When electors in West Bengal bid adieu to the Left Front government after an uninterrupted rule of about 34 years, one of the major accusations against the communists was their acts of repression and subjugation against the Opposition.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself has spoken of those days of terror on several occasions, where she has claimed to have been the target. “I could have died that day,” she would end many such renditions of ordeals. Unfortunately, the state still remains in the grips of hooligans, where many such acts are passed off as “spontaneous” and “public outrage”.

Similar words were heard when video footage surfaced Monday, October 6, of an injured Maldaha Uttar (North Malda) MP Khagen Murmu, with blood covering his face. Siliguri MLA Shankar Ghosh, accompanying

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