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The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has ruled West Bengal for six years now. Her party had defeated the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led Left parties in the 2011 Assembly polls, and decimated them in the 2016 polls. Overall, the democratic Left in India has seldom been this feeble since independence, both in terms of its legislative presence and strength on the ground. The radical left movement is a shadow of its glory years of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Why then has Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah picked Naxalbari as the spot to embark on a 15-day
