LONGEST COMMUNIST RULE IN WEST BENGAL


Communist party ruled West Bengal for seven consecutive terms from 1977 to 2011. Five of these were under Jyothi Basu and two were under Buddhadev Bhattacharya. Let us now find the positive and negative impacts of the people from the Communist regime. As per available information, in 1977 the GDP of West Bengal was 13% of the national GDP. However the GDP of the state fell down to 3% of the national GDP after 2011. West Bengal had the 5th highest unemployment rate in the country in 2011-12. As per the report of the Economic times dated 17 May 2011, during the communist rule in the state for 34 years, industries fled away from the state, farm growth tapered off and the poor became poorer. According to another report by Business Line of The Hindu dated 12 April 2016, many major industries like the Hindustan Motors, Dunlop India and a good number of Jute Mills were closed in 1990s rendering hundreds of workers jobless. In all during the communist regime, industries numbering in thousands were closed down across the state.

The report in the Economic Times further tells that between 1977 and 1996 there were over 28,000  political murders in the state, making an average of 125.7 political killings every month. Another report from the Dainik Statesman from Kolkata dated 16 July 2010, according to a statement laid on the table by the then Chief Minister Sri Buddhadev Bhattacharya, during 2009 there were 2284 murders, 2516 rapes, killings by Maoists 134, outraging the modesty 3013 and torture on brides 17,571.

The GDP per capita income of selected states of India (2019-20) are: 1) Goa Rs 4,35,959, 2) Sikkim
Rs 4,03,376, 3) Delhi Rs 3,76,221,
8) Kerala Rs 2,21,904  21) West Bengal Rs 1,21,463 (Courtesy Wikipedia)

Internet users in 2022
(Women %)
Chandigarh 75.2
Goa 73.7
Kerala 61.1
West Bengal 25.5
Tripura 22.9
India 33.3

(Men%)
Chandigarh 91.9
Delhi 85.2
Kerala 76.1
West Bengal 46.7
Tripura 45.7
India 57.1

According to NITI Aayog 
Top states in health index of 2021 with score: Kerala 82.90, Tamil Nadu 72.42 and West Bengal below 19

Under whatever socioeconomic guidelines and principles a party may rule a state or a country, if it fails to raise the standard of living of the people, such ideology have no worth and no potential for any application in any society. Now let us see the balance sheet of 34 years communist rule in West Bengal. What one see today is that people fleeing the state enmasse for their daily meals to other states right upto Kerala.

K V George 

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