2021

* Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 8, 2021
* West Bengal Stops BJP Juggernaut | Barun Das Gupta
* Bengal: Total Wipeout of The Left - whodunit?
* The Tale of Three Women Candidates in Kerala | Chathukulam & Joseph
* The Assembly Elections (2021) In Kerala - Analysis| Biju & Padmanabha
* Letter to Lenin | P. Kropotkin

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 8, 2021
As days pass the pile of evidence of continuing failures and ineptitude of Government administration in the face of the second wave of covid-19, grows. First, they failed to take note of coming health emergency despite warnings by experts, and subsequently, in the face of a serious crisis created by the second wave of Covid-19 the Modi Government has cut a sorry figure and is still struggling to respond with coherence. The international, (…)

May 8, 2021
The Trinamool Congress’ (TMC’s) victory in the 2021 State Assembly elections in West Bengal has been momentous and historic in every sense of the terms. This becomes all the more evident from the manner in which the country’s ruling party at the Centre, the BJP, strained every nerve to win the elections as money was spent like water, not only to break the Trinamool but also to leave an imprint of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ on the length and breadth of the State.
According to the latest (…)

The Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee has won hands down in the West Bengal assembly elections and come back to power for the third time in a row. But in the process, the ultra-Right BJP has emerged as the sole opposition. The CPI-M and the Congress drew blank. So, there will be no Left and democratic opposition in the new Assembly. And for the first time since 1946, there will be no Communist member in the House.
The CPI-M is solely responsible for this. In its anger against (…)

In the recently held assembly elections in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had a landslide victory over its nearest rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and won 213 seats out of 294. On the other hand, it is the first time since independence that the Left and the Congress failed to win a single seat in the state assembly. This opens a new chapter in Bengal politics.
Almost all the important central leaders of the BJP campaigned in West Bengal to oust the TMC government in (…)

by Arun Srivastava
Failure of the CPI(M) to win even one seat in the Bengal assembly election, the state which the Left Front had ruled for 34 years reminisces the historic blunder it has committed by not allowing Jyoti Basu to become the prime minister. If at that time the Kerala line was responsible for that blunder, the CPI(M)’s failure this time owes to the complete lack of ideological clarity to the Bengal line.
The party general secretary Sitaram Yechury has tried to come out of (…)

by P S Jayaramu
The historic West Bengal Assembly results were out a few days ago. In the high octane elections, the Trinamool Congress under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee registered an emphatic win, surpassing its 2016 record. In a way Mamata Banerjee has reconquered Bengal . Her coming back to power for the third time will doubtless be the subject of analysis for sometime to come in academic and media circles. An attempt is made here to analyse the election results from the (…)

by Vijay Kumar
At a time when the entire country is lurching from crisis to catastrophe, marking sharp descent of India into failed State, like sub- Sahara African countries, an immense sense of relief came from the result of the 2021 West Bengal Assembly Election, which has saved the soul of Indian democracy.
I was watching the Bengal campaign with a frightening sense of disquiet and discomfiture. The BJP under hideously polarizing leadership of the Prime Minister, and mafia-style (…)

Introduction
The much-awaited results of Kerala Assembly Elections 2021 was announced on May 2. The ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) led by incumbent Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan emerged victorious in the recently concluded assembly polls by increasing its tally of seats from 91 to 99. The LDF with its thumping victory has created a history of sorts by breaking the 40-year-old political trend of alternating between LDF and United Democratic Front (UDF). While poor representation of (…)

by Prof M R Biju and M.R.B. Anantha Padmanabha *
Prelude
The Election Commission of India (ECI) made the formal announcement for the assembly elections in the state of Kerala on 26th February 2021, along with the states of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and the Union Territory of Puducherry. The assembly polls to Kerala has generally treated as an indicative of a new social compact that is taking place in the state. It could also mark as a realignment of Kerala’s political landscape. The (…)