Testing time for India’s Marxists
Disillusionment among poor rural voters imperils leftists’ three-decade-long rule in West Bengal state.
Published On 18 Apr 2011
Economic hardships in the Indian state of West Bengal have increasingly left voters there disillusioned with politics.
That has presented a challenge to the state’s Marxists, who have ruled the area for the last three decades.
Al Jazeera’s Prerna Suri reports on the situation for farmers in West Bengal.