Who is the CIA agent, friends!
Remembering Marichjhapi Massacre
Palash Biswas
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Attacking the left in a left manner!
This is the strategy CIA developed for those countries elect left govts. in democratic process. This tried in Latin America. In Kerala.
Now entire India is behind this kind of attacks.
In Kerala the main opponents of ADB loan is RSS and Congress party only.
Intelectuals giving this rightwing plot a very strategic ideological support. They are using their media cult to accelreate the process of defeating the elected peoples govts.
If Mamta Banerji come to Power in West Bengal what kind of policy she is going to implement?
Is it any how different to the one Mamta was following under NDA Govt.?
regi.
palash biswas wrote: Lal Salaam 30,Ideology Sacrificed
Regi comments on my writeup. Welcome. This is the Ruling version often which does not surprise me anymore. CIA is behind all this criticism, Left always insists. Why CIA should be there? Does the Left oppose Hindu Zionist Post modern Manusmriti? Does the Left resist US imperialism anymore? Does it toe the Marxist ideology at all? Is not the so called Left in India is killing the communist movement in India? Is the capitalist development against the Global order?
Think friends, how CIA works in Singur and Nandigram! Is CIA responsible for indiscriminate Industrialisatio, Urbanisation and Annihilate Rural India drive?
President A P J Abdul Kalam on Friday announced he would not run for a second term in office “in the current scenario” because he does not want the Rashtrapati Bhavan to become involved in a political process. Left is succesful to stall second term for the Missile Man! Could the Left stall the appointment of Indian FMs and PMs fro Washington?
"The President told a delegation (of United National Progressive Alliance leaders) that after considering their request and reviewing the situation carefully from all angles, he has decided that in the current scenario, he will not be interested in running for a second term as he does not want Rashtrapati Bhavan to become involved in any political process," said Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesman S M Khan.
Why Comrade Jyoti Basu was not allowed to become the Prime Minister of india?
Why Pranab Mukherjee was sponsered for Presidentship discarding Jyoti Basu and somnath Chatterjee. Being number two in Indira cabinate , the Bengali Kuleen Brahmin has become the best agent of Post Modern Manusmriti and UsS Imperialism! He has the rare distinction to be associated with world Bank, IMF, WTO and ADB? Whose interests would have been served if the Left were successful to put the refugge hater in raiseena Hills?
Is the Left working for US Imperialism?
Is the Left not working as CIA agent?
Let us see and read the news:
CIA to release details on decades of secrets
Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:16AM EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Central Intelligence Agency is declassifying hundreds of pages of documents on secret operations from over three decades ago, CIA Director Michael Hayden said.
The so-called "Family Jewels" document overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, according to a summary posted on the Web site of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.The documents to be released next week also include accounts of break-ins and theft, surveillance of U.S. journalists, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, and "behavior modification" experiments on "unwitting" U.S. civilians.
"Much of it has been in the press before, and most of it is unflattering, but it's the CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech on Thursday to the American Foreign Relations Conference.
"This is about telling the American people what we have done in their name," Hayden said.
The CIA chief said the documents provide a glimpse of "a very different time and a very difference agency."
Hayden said 147 documents, 11,000 pages of analysis done between 1953 and 1973, would be available on the CIA's Web site.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2121273020070622
WORLD REFUGEE DAY:The United Nations General Assembly designated 20 June 2000 as World Refugee Day to recognize and celebrate the contribution of refugees. Left leaders did not mention anything related to the plights of the refugees in India just next day when they celebrated Lal salam at 30!
I also belong to an East Bengal refugee family resettled in Nanital in early fifties and my late Father Pulin Biswas worked lifelong for his people, the Dalit Bengali refugees scattered systematically countrywide by Caste Hindu leadership of West Bengal. We have been ousted from not only the geopolitics of Bangla nationality but are still today deprived of basic civil and human rights. Pranab Mukherjee and Lal Krishna Adwani , supported by the so called marxists of Bengal, have launched a deportation drive against us with revision of Citizenship Act which deprive us, the bonafied citizens of India since independence, of our citizenship.
Ruling Left tried its Best to make Pranab Mukherjee the Next President and the communal Brahminical Icon of Caste Hindu West Bengal!
They sghed tears for CPIM refugees in Nandigram! What about the Millions of Dalit Bengali Refugees sacttered all over West Bengal and India! They use the Dalit Refugees as the solid most Vote Bank and over Thirteen lac refugee names were deleted fro Voters` list in WB just before last elections.
People across the world were celebrating World Refugee Day on Wednesday amid a call on the global community to help the world's displaced and a warning that their numbers were set to rise.
In New York, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his first World Refugee Day (WRD) message as UN chief that international solidarity was crucial to meet the urgent humanitarian needs of refugees and others forcibly displaced.
"As we mark World Refugee Day, let us recall what sets these families, children and elderly apart from others on the move around the globe. The difference is that they cannot go home. To ensure that they are cared for and protected until they can, let us offer them our support and understanding," he said.
On World Refugee Day we celebrate the courage of millions of men, women and children who made the terrible decision to leave their home and set out on a journey of danger and uncertainty to try to find a safer place where they could live in dignity and without constant fear.
We acknowledge that their decision was hard. They left with guilt about their friends and relatives who could not come. They left their home and everything precious to them. And they left without being able to say farewell.
We applaud their determination through pain and fear to escape the perils of the way. Some in Africa were attacked and eaten by lions as they travelled through the bush to avoid detection. But others still followed and saw the white bones and scraps of clothing. Some had to hide by day and travel only at night, always afraid of being discovered and betrayed.
Even after paying their lifes possessions for travel by people smugglers they found themselves in a leaking boat on raging seas, at danger from pirates, hunger and thirst.
Marxists in Bengal, mobilsed the masses with Refugee Movement. When it romped home with State Power in 1977, it executed Marichjhapi refugees!
Just remeber‘A Crusader for Refugee Relief’He has championed the rights of the Marichjhapi settlers who had been threatened with forceful eviction by the state administration. ...
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Anthropology Matters Journal 2005, 7 (1). Mukhopadhyay ...In this context the Marichjhapi incident is worth mentioning. Ever since the partition of India in 1947, refugee rehabilitation had been an issue that ...
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Tigers, dolphins set off deep cultural conflicts / Biologist swept ...The Sundarbans had in the '70s seen a bloody confrontation between refugees who had "settled" the uninhabited island of Marichjhapi and the government, ...
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NDTV Blogs - Log in. Blog out.But when the refugees flooded Marichjhapi and Bengal, meanwhile, Basu was in Power, thde Chief Minister. His minister Ram Chatterjee was personally ...
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Organiser - ContentMarichjhapi still figures in academic discourse as an example of Marxist deceit. ... The Marichjhapi massacre has been “forgotten” in Bengal because the ...
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‘A Crusader for Refugee Relief’He has championed the rights of the Marichjhapi settlers who had been threatened with forceful eviction by the state administration. ...
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Anthropology Matters Journal 2005, 7 (1). Mukhopadhyay ...In this context the Marichjhapi incident is worth mentioning. Ever since the partition of India in 1947, refugee rehabilitation had been an issue that ...
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Tigers, dolphins set off deep cultural conflicts / Biologist swept ...The Sundarbans had in the '70s seen a bloody confrontation between refugees who had "settled" the uninhabited island of Marichjhapi and the government, ...
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NDTV Blogs - Log in. Blog out.But when the refugees flooded Marichjhapi and Bengal, meanwhile, Basu was in Power, thde Chief Minister. His minister Ram Chatterjee was personally ...
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Organiser - ContentMarichjhapi still figures in academic discourse as an example of Marxist deceit. ... The Marichjhapi massacre has been “forgotten” in Bengal because the ...
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Medha is considered outsider! Arundhati, Mahashweta, Shaonli,Aparna, Sunanda Sanyal, mainstream editor Sumit Chakrabarti and all the intellectuals protesting SEZ have been branded as the enemies of the People? And Imam Bukhari goes to Nandigram under police protection with Buddha Dev`s message!
They used to say, AAMAR NAAM VIETNAAM TOMAAR NAAM VIETNAM. And see, how they die for a chemical hub for the Napam Bomb specialist and owner of Union carbide- Dows!
Who is the CIA agent, friends!
At 30, the Left Front government needs to polish its once-envied slogan-coining skills to get across the message of industrialisation. That is the lesson thrown up by the CNN-IBN/The Telegraph opinion poll, conducted by AC Nielsen in Calcutta, as the front completed three decades in power today. The poll was carried out on June 14 and 15 among 802 respondents from 80 wards in the city.
A majority of the young — those who have a bigger stake in what lies ahead — want industrialisation. The number of industrialisation sceptics — across all groups as well as among the young — is not insignificant. But, in the same breath, all agree that the front’s biggest failure has been in generating jobs. The lack of industries, again, is rated the least of the government’s failures. This suggests the government has failed to persuade people that without more industry, there can’t be more jobs.
mind You that the much hyped and publicised Survey is limited in Kolkata itself. As you should know that the Metro and suburban people are more or less previleged and they don`t reflect the underprevileged, enslaved majority peole living in Rural Bengal including Singur, Nandigram, Puroshottampur and North Bengal Tea Gardens!
But the Opinion Poll results are more worrying for the government as a huge majority (72 per cent) cutting across all groups, even living in Kolkata, believe that Nandigram and Singur were mishandled — a perception that could have played a role in giving industrialisation a bad name.
If the publicity battle is lost — the CPM apparatus used to excel in such skirmishes in times of adversity earlier — the war could still be won because Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seems to enjoy the confidence of the majority of the youths.
Is the dissent of the Masses has any link to CIA?
Do the ABP group and CNN- INBN have any links with CIA?
According to the young rate the chief minister higher than his predecessor Jyoti Basu while it’s the opposite among the older generations. Yet the chief minister can hardly take the youth’s support for granted, for the margin is too narrow for comfort. It’s 57-43 for him personally and 55-45 for his industry policy. You amy understand the role of the nonagenerian patriarch in the party and the goverment considering this fact!
Overall, the front does not seem to have done too badly for a 30-year-old. Calcuttans are by and large satisfied with Left Front rule.
The front is lauded for stability, land reforms and panchayat governance, and the city even seems to have bought Bhattacharjee’s line that the state is an “oasis of peace”. But the age of romance is over and the wrinkles are beginning to get noticed. The approval — highest among the poor and young — comes with the overwhelming feeling that the rest of India has left the state behind. The middle and lower-middle classes seem to link this to the Bengali’s growing mediocrity while for the affluent, government policies are equally to blame.
There’s solace for Mamata Banerjee: the city can’t find an alternative to her as the main Opposition. The women are the Trinamul Congress chief’s biggest supporters, a majority of them agreeing with her that Bengal polls are often rigged.
This may seem strange since Mamata herself had spoken in glorious terms of the Election Commission’s supervision in the last Assembly polls that had appeared to have settled once and for all that the Left wins on popular support and not by rigging.
The well-off and the more educated, too, go along with Mamata’s charge but the lower income groups have tilted the scales towards the Left.
Whether there’s life beyond 30, the battle over industrialisation will decide.
The chief minister reached out to the constituency today, saying the young generation would not “forgive” the Opposition if it derailed the industrialisation initiative.
“There is no room for budging an inch on industrialisation for opening up job opportunities,” Bhattacharjee told a rally to mark 30 years of Left rule in the state.
“My government’s aim is to take West Bengal to the number one position in every sphere -- agriculture, industry and scientific development,” he said.
West Bengal govt files report before High Court on Nandigram land aquisition
The West Bengal government here today filed the administrative report before Calcutta High Court on March 14 violence over land acquisition in Nandigram in which 14 persons died in police firing and scores of people were wounded.The government conducted the administrative enquiry on an order of the High Court which initiated a suo motto case on the day after Nandigram violence triggered off a widespread controversy.Advocate general Balai Roy placed a report before the division bench, headed by chief justice Surinder Singh Nijjar.Altogether seven petitions had been filed before the court 'seeking' impartial probe into the Nandigram killings.
The Court, however, began to hear the petitioners early this week. Two of the petitioners- Calcutta High Court Bar Association and the Rights Watch Group Association For Protection of Democratic Rights- completed their submission before the court.The court directed the other petitioners to file their submission before the bench in writing.
The state government would defend the case before the bench from Monday.
Meanwhile,East Midnapore police have decided to move in to the Nandigram trouble zone to stop the recurring clashes between the CPM and the Bhoomi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee.The district police, who remained in the background since the March 14 firing, have asked the two sides to maintain equal distance from the Nandigram-Khejuri border. The Talpatti canal separates Pratirodh Committee stronghold Nandigram from Khejuri, where the CPM is in control.Local CPM leaders expressed satisfaction that the police were playing an active role in the area. “We have told the police that we will ask our supporters to be restrained in Khejuri,” Guria said.A senior police official said from now on, the police would arrest those caught assembling with arms. Both the CPM and the Pratirodh Committee activists have been asked not to assemble near the border of Nandigram and Khejuri.
District police superintendent Anil Srinivas said the force has lined up a string of measures to ensure peace in the area. A formal announcement on this is expected tomorrow.The location of the camp and pickets were decided after the police held separate discussions with the CPM and the Pratirodh Committee leaders. A police camp will be set up in Ranichowk and pickets will be installed in Maheshpur, Satengabari, Basulichowk — all in Nandigram — and Janani Brick kiln, Kanungochowk, Chandirthan and Chunabheri in Khejuri.
Tata Motors to employ successful trainees at Singur
NEW DELHI: Tata Motors on Friday said it would absorb successful trainees it has selected from Singur where it is setting up a plant for its small-car project. "If they (the trainees) successfully clear the training and related tests they will become eligible for employment," a company spokesperson said.
Tata Motors, along with West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) and state government, took initiatives last year to train the local youth, with a focus on ITI trained students, to improve their employability.
The company is expecting to create more than 10,000 direct and indirect jobs opportunities within the proposed plant and with vendors and service providers in the vicinity.
Of the 36 trainees short-listed, 17 have been selected and placed in Tata Motors' Jamshedpur facility for a six-month training programme
Harmony missing
The day was meant to mark 30 years of uninterrupted Left rule, but the Front partners turned the Netaji Indoor Stadium into a shadow-boxing arena.While chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his predecessor Jyoti Basu defended the drive for industry, the RSP, Forward Bloc and CPI voiced caution couched in rhetoric.CPM state secretary Biman Bose set the tone for the proceedings, reminding the allies of their coalition dharma.
“The country has entered into an era of coalitions. The Left Front unity is the basic condition for the speedy and effective implementation of our poll promises,’’ Bose said, reminding allies of the mandate in favour of industrialisation in last year’s polls.
But the partners were hardly convinced. “We had formed the front and the government 30 years back as the weapon for people’s struggle against imperialism and anti-people forces,” Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh said. “As long as we follow that politics, we are committed to Front unity.”
PWD minister and senior RSP leader Kshiti Goswami warned: “Let us be cautious (so) that our acts do not compel poor people to shed tears,” hinting at the land acquisition backlash.
Basu tried a balancing act, defending the industry drive while urging the CPM and its allies to “protect Front unity”.
The nonagenarian, who recently tried to broker truce between Mamata Banerjee and the government on land acquisition, today called the Opposition “irresponsible”.
Bhattacharjee made it clear that he would not “retreat, but march ahead” with his vision of development. “Bengal tops the list of states in agriculture production. The challenge now is to revive Bengal’s pre-Independence glory in industry.”
In Delhi, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat echoed him. “Industrialisation is a must for employment. Without big corporate houses like the Tatas, it is not possible in the present system,” he said.
Mamata’s charges
Mamata has listed a 12-point “chargesheet” against the Left and said a probe will be conducted when it is out of power.
A TRIBUTE AND A CRITIQUE
- Old soldiers are still needed in moments of acute crisis
Cutting Corners - Ashok Mitra
This week the Left Front regime in West Bengal completes 30 years of uninterrupted existence. It is a record without parallel in the annals of multi-party democratic systems, particularly for a political formation adhering to a leftist ideology. Frustrated opponents have every now and then raised some hullabaloo about skulduggery in the successive elections the front has won. Partly in response to such complaints, the Election Commission had held last year’s poll in the state under the most stringent arrangements. To no avail; the Left Front’s triumph in 2006 was even more resounding than on some of the previous occasions. Why not admit it, it is approval by the people of the front’s policies and programmes which explains the longevity of its tenure. That is however not the entire story. An individual, because of the abundance of his wisdom as well as his imagination and practical sense, was, more than anybody else, in large measure responsible for the Left Front’s reaching the pinnacle of glory it reached. That individual — is it not superfluous to add — is Jyoti Basu.
When Jyoti Basu was sworn in as chief minister for the first time on June 21, 1977, four others took the ministerial oath of office along with him. Of that quartet, three have already shuffled off this mortal coil; the writer of this column is the only one still surviving. He seeks forgiveness for using the occasion to offer some homage to the grand patriarch he was privileged to be a colleague of.
The strength the Left Front acquired over the years was mainly on account of a number of crucial decisions it took immediately on entering office. These include land reforms along with legislation for enforcing tenurial rights and ceiling on land holdings, establishment of a three-tier panchayat system with comprehensive decentralization of administrative power, and devolution — by stages — of one-half of the state’s developmental outlay to the panchayati structure. These measures categorically shifted the balance of power in West Bengal’s countryside in favour of the Left Front.
A single piece of statistic should convince even the most ardent scoffers of the enormity of the transformation Jyoti Basu’s stewardship brought about: of the total quantum of arable land redistributed in the country since independence, more than one-half has taken place in West Bengal. The rural poor, once they switch their loyalty, stay switched till as long as, through inadvertence or otherwise, their susceptibilities are not deeply hurt.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070622/asp/opinion/story_7951346.asp
Ambani brothers' four SEZs among 36 cleared by BoA
New Delh: The government panel on Special Economic Zones today cleared three zones promoted by Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani and his aide Anand Jain, while giving formal approval to 36 SEZ proposals. The Board of Approval, which met here to consider 52 proposals, also cleared Anil Ambani Group Reliance Infocom's 18-hectare IT SEZ at Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Maharashtra.It gave in-principle approval to 9 proposals.
Mukesh Ambani and Anand Jain promoted Navi Mumbai SEZ Pvt Ltd proposes to set up three zones covering an area of 345 hectare. Around 63.74 hectare will be occupied by a biotechnology zone, 179 hectare by a light engineering SEZ and 103.25 hectare by a pharmaceutical project.
The consortium also plans a 1,250 hectare multi-product SEZ in the area which is awaiting clearance from BoA. Revenue Department has raised some issues regarding the project on which state government and promoters' comments have been received.
The BoA also approved an electronic hardware SEZ promoted by Foxconn. The hardware supplier to companies like Nokia and Motorola got the nod for a 11-hectare SEZ in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, which it will eventually expand to 136 hectares.
The company already has an SEZ in the country and plans to invest 400 million dollars in the new facility. In all Foxconn wants to invest 1.5 billion dollars in India.
The Board also approved a 235-hectare SEZ in the textiles sector. Promoted by Sri Lanka-based multinational MAS Fabric Park, the zone in Andhra Pradesh involves a total investment of Rs 880 crore. Overall the company has plans to invest 700 million dollars that will create 30,000 jobs.
The BoA also approved two SEZs in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, the first ones for the union territory. A proposal by Ramky Infrastructure to set up a 1,012-hectare multi-product SEZ in West Bengal was given an in-principle clearance.
Of the seven cases deferred, two proposals for multi- product SEZs came from Skil Infrastructure. The clearance could not be given as they did not meet networth requirement.
The company said it has got a 500-million-dollars investment from a US company that has taken 26 per cent stake. As the FIPB approval for the transaction is yet to come, Board deferred the two cases.
As of today, 339 SEZs have formal approval of which 126 have been notified. In all, Rs 35,145 crore has been invested in these zones which have created 32,578 direct jobs.
Replicate West Bengal model at Centre, says Karat
NEW DELHI: Leaders of the Left parties on Thursday asserted that efforts to replicate the West Bengal model on a national scale would emerge through concerted and united efforts.
“We cannot leave with West Bengal. Democratic and progressive parties would have to work together and the Left has to work unitedly. Through joint struggles and agitations we have to work …” Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said at a function here to mark the completion of 30 years of the Left Front Government in West Bengal.
He said the Left Front Government was the target of all-round attack and disclosed that when the coalition first came to power in 1977, the CPI (M) did not think it could last so long, primarily on account of the historical role of the Congress Governments at the Centre that dismissed the E.M.S. Namboodiripad-led communist Government in Kerala.He said as early as this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party had demanded the dismissal of the West Bengal Government following developments in Nandigram. “We have to be cautious and we know the character of the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the BJP. All of them joined hands against us recently in panchayat, local bodies elections,” Mr. Karat said.
The CPI (M) general secretary said the State Government would pursue the policy of balanced development by attracting investments from big industrial houses like the Tatas and also strengthen the working class movement. Both would go together.
CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan too felt it was time for West Bengal to industrialise and conceded that the Government did make some mistakes. He, however, said the Left Front has to learn from the mistakes and move ahead since it had reached the maximum growth on the basis of agriculture. “During one phase there was de-industrialisation in West Bengal, now it is time to industrialise,” he said adding that Kolkata and its surrounds was ranked second after Mumbai for having industries five decades ago.
That the people of the State voted back the Left Front Government for the last three decades clearly discounts the “anti-incumbency” theory because of which it continues to work for the welfare of the toiling classes.
All India Forward Bloc general secretary Debabrata Biswas said it was time the Left parties worked for a national alternative and said united struggle would be required to turn this into a reality.
He criticised some Left intellectuals and others for pouring scorn on the Left Front’s functioning and charged that the aim was to destabilise the Government.
Revolutionary Socialist Party leader and MP Abani Roy too felt that the Left parties should take responsibility and lead in forming a Government at the Centre and elsewhere and these parties alone represented the working class and were committed to upholding their interest.
Lie test for Singur loudmouth
Debu Malik, a Singur villager, has been picked up by the CBI in the Tapasi Malik death case and sent for a lie-detector test.Asked why he was suspected, CBI superintendent A.K. Sahay said: “We have gone through the TV footage and it appears that on every channel, Debu has been very vocal that Tapasi had committed suicide.
On December 18, last year, 18-year-old Tapasi’s burnt body was found on the land fenced off for the Tata Motors small-car project in Singur.
Tapasi, from Bajemelia in Singur, was part of the Save Farmland Committee that was protesting land acquisition in the area. This is the first time the CBI has picked up someone in the case.
Debu, 24, was taken to the CBI headquarters in Delhi day before yesterday.
Sahay said: “Debu claims Tapasi was carrying a can. But we asked a few people whom Debu had spoken of… but they denied having said such things.”
A CBI official said: “We have found Debu was the man in charge of the guards, protecting the boundary wall in Singur at night. So, it is necessary to verify his statements.”
[The following report undoubtedly gives a somewhat comprehensive picture, which is arguably quite a mixed one.
One major and critical gap is that a comparative picture of percentage of votes polled by different contending forces is (still) not available.
On the whole the LF has arguably gained marginally in the countryside and lost in the urban areas in terms of seats.
But even in rural areas, while the LF has gained (in terms of seats) marginally, mostly at the cost of the "independents", at the lowest level of the three-tier system when we consider the aggregate picture, which however could be quite misleading; it has actually lost while going up the ladder - in panchayat samitis the LF has gained very marginally and in zilla parishads lost much more significantly than the gains at the lowest level.
At the (lowest) level I: LF from 249 to 256, Congress 37 to 43, TMC 40 to 45, BJP 8 to 5, independents 62 to 49.
Level II: LF 64 to 65, Congress 8 to 6, TMC 3 to 9, BJP unchanged at 1, independents 18 to 13.
Level (highest) I: LF 22 to 19, opposition(?) 2 to 5.
It is rather likely, that given the fact these were by-elections, the three levels, by and large are not overlapping. But we don't really know.
In the municipal (urban / semi-urban) elections: the LF from 72 wards to 62, opposition(?) 32 to 42.
Apparently, there is a shift of support away from the Congress to the TMC. In a transitional phase, when the shift is rather tentative, it may very well work to the advantage of the main opponent if the shift is away from an erstwhile stronger to the weaker tending to reverse the balance of forces within the anti-LF camp. But if it is a shift from the erstwhile weaker to the stronger, then things would be very different.
In order to adequately comprehend and conclude, constituency level figures would be required.
The claim that "in Panskura, the anti-left forces ganged up to give Mamata Banerjee her dream mahajot, grand alliance" appears to be pretty significant.
It shows that disunity in the opposition ranks plays a major role. (In the assembly elections the LF usually polls marginally below the 50% marks. But the seats gained could be quite disproportionate depending on the division of opposition votes at the constituency level.)
We do not really know how the indexes of disunity within the "opposition" and that of "unity" within the LF have moved. (Unlike in the assemblies, in these lower level polls, the LF partners indulge in "friendly"(!) fights.)
Much has been made of "in Singur, in Nandigram and in Salanpur, people have voted left".
In Nandigram, only 1 (level I) seat was involved. Apparently, it has been "retai
