Kolkata, June 21: The Left is today celebrating the silver jubilee of its rule in its last bastion – West Bengal. The Left government under Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has a two-thirds majority in the state assembly. Despite the rest of the country and, more or less, the whole world abandoning communism, West Bengal has returned Left government for six consecutive times in general elections.
The main programme by the nine party Front, including major constituents, CPI-M, CPI, Forward Bloc and RSP, would be held at the Netaji Indoor Stadium here. It would be graced by charismatic leader Jyoti Basu, chief minister for a record 24 years before handing over the mantle to Buddhadev Bhattacharjee. In the run up to the celebrations, Front activists held street-corner meetings and took out processions in the metropolis and in other parts of the state on Thursday.

The Trinamool Congress has, meanwhile, said that it will observe it as a ‘Black Day’ to project the failure on the Front’s ‘failure and misdeeds’ in the past 25 years. Bureau Report