Biter bitten in West Bengal

For almost 35 years, the Left Front, effectively the Communist Party of India (Marxist) ruled the state of West Bengal. Its beginning was auspicious because through Operation Barga it gave the tenants some security of tenure on the land that they tilled and held from the owner, the jotedar. Operation Barga, of which Hare Krishna Konar as revenue minister was the originator and Debu Bandopadhyay, IAS, the land reforms commissioner was the enforcer, brought to a state plagued by the iniquities of the Permanent Settlement of Cornwallis and the landlordism it brought in its wake, the very definite hope that the tiller of the soil would become its owner.

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