WritingsOnTheWall: When Mamata ended 34-year Left rule in 2011 & Writings on the Wall read the signs in West Bengal
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The episode discusses the end of 34-year Left rule in West Bengal and the political changes leading up to it in 2011.
The second phase of elections in West Bengal will be held on Wednesday. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta takes you back to 2011 when #WritingsOnTheWall described the state of West Bengal under Left rule & why it was guilty of undermining the entrepreneurship of Bengali people. The two-part series from 2011, also read the new stirrings of change in Bengal, before Mamata ended 34-year Left rule in the state.----more----Read full article here: https://theprint.in/sg-writings-on-the-wall/from-soviet-union-in-alimuddin-street-to-a-watch-repair-shop-in-singur-2/544113/
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