Speaking of the comrades

No one should read the incendiary rhetoric of a seven-term CPM MP, Anil Basu — drawing parallels between “prostitutes” and “big clients” on one hand and Mamata Banerjee and her “big client” America on the other — as anything but a farewell speech from Bengal’s communist regime. The outrage the comments evoked instantly, right from Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to the party’s grassroots comrades, appears to be demonstrative in nature and well-orchestrated.

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