Communal binary stopping Left from getting seats in Bengal: CPI(M) leader Saira Shah Halim

'The 7 January rally at the historic Brigade Parade Ground was a symbolic passing-of-the-baton-to the next-generation by the CPI(M), a party often criticised in West Bengal for failing to come out of the hangover of the Jyoti Basu-Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-Anil Biswas-Biman Bose era. While Basu and Bhattacharjee ran Left Front governments for a combined 34 years in the state, Bose succeeded Biswas as the state secretary in charge of party affairs, says Deep Halder in his column.
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  • @sourjyoroy3393
    @sourjyoroy33935 күн бұрын

    Calling BJP Fascists is like calling the current CPIM Maoists. Both statements would be wildly incorrect. She speaks only of industrial push during Buddhadeb Sir's term. The industrial decline began during the far left Jyoti Babus Soviet style Communist reign. Many people from our generation had to move away from our homes because of them. I feel CPIM in their current rendition would probably be preferable to the TMC syndicate. However that is a very low bar.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    5 күн бұрын

    Yet both statements are very popular.

  • @gilgamesh-rc2pb

    @gilgamesh-rc2pb

    4 күн бұрын

    At least you had the resources necessary to move out of your place. Most of the people didn't even have money for travelling to a different locations

  • @bloodwargaming3662

    @bloodwargaming3662

    3 күн бұрын

    You don't know the land reforms Jyoti Basu undertook

  • @rishavkumar1250

    @rishavkumar1250

    3 күн бұрын

    @@bloodwargaming3662 they were half hearted reforms ...

  • @bloodwargaming3662

    @bloodwargaming3662

    3 күн бұрын

    @@rishavkumar1250 it's easy for elites like you to say this but rural people got so much benefit from it

  • @rajput2736
    @rajput27365 күн бұрын

    Left have guts to talk against radical Islamist...

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    5 күн бұрын

    Yes

  • @vinodiyer-wd4mm

    @vinodiyer-wd4mm

    5 күн бұрын

    They dont

  • @ranjanmanas834

    @ranjanmanas834

    5 күн бұрын

    Coward left.

  • @theverbalindian3252

    @theverbalindian3252

    4 күн бұрын

    Yes they can.

  • @Anonymous-sf4hw

    @Anonymous-sf4hw

    4 күн бұрын

    They don't say anything about any religion

  • @BadAss_691
    @BadAss_6915 күн бұрын

    Don’t oppose compulsory Bengali paper in WBCS.

  • @Pupi-hz3js
    @Pupi-hz3js5 күн бұрын

    Her party is the one to oppose english in primary school and look at her english She's the one opposed compulsory Bengali paper in WBCS.

  • @Anonymous-sf4hw

    @Anonymous-sf4hw

    4 күн бұрын

    Nirlojjo mohila ini. Era futureo kono vote pabe na. Bangali der job exploit kora eder kaaj

  • @joysen83
    @joysen834 күн бұрын

    CPIM is to blame for its' fate, budhadeb bhattacharya tried but jyoti basu did all the damage. Now communist movement in all of india is almost dead. Bengal cannot be different from rest of India.

  • @strangrebrew
    @strangrebrew5 күн бұрын

    This person should contest the CCFC/Calcutta Club elections. She'll definitely win there.

  • @biplabkar8737
    @biplabkar87374 күн бұрын

    The opening question itself is a wrong question. Instead of asking what went wrong with the left, she should have been asked why people are repeatedly rejecting them. It's not only because of the communal binary but also because of positive rejection. We, who were born in late fifties or early sixties, have vivid memories of the 67-69, 1977 to 2011, and of course, the last decade ....

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    So, inspite of 67 to 69, you guys voted Left Front later.

  • @SimantaKalita-db8gg
    @SimantaKalita-db8gg4 күн бұрын

    is she bengali ? Assamese don't vote for any non Assamese mp but bengali are so innocent get scam by tmc . 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    Assamese have bung holi MP

  • @RKV8527
    @RKV85275 күн бұрын

    CPM is only in Kerala now, in the world. What is the relevance of the communist idea in the modern world? In Kerala, too, like West Bengal, CPM destroyed Kerala.Unemployment and economic collapse of Keralal can not be solved now

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    5 күн бұрын

    Cuba, North Korea.

  • @sreedharreddyabbidi5374

    @sreedharreddyabbidi5374

    5 күн бұрын

    China Vietnam Cuba laos Nepal

  • @dr.s.mallick

    @dr.s.mallick

    4 күн бұрын

    There are 196 countries in the world, how many are being ruled by the BJP (except India)? Communists are running at least 5 countries.

  • @dr.s.mallick

    @dr.s.mallick

    4 күн бұрын

    ​@@sreedharreddyabbidi5374Not Nepal. It's a bourgeois democracy but North Korea is communist.

  • @Gaajrkahlwa123

    @Gaajrkahlwa123

    4 күн бұрын

    ​@@sreedharreddyabbidi5374What about muslims in China

  • @ADsocrates0010
    @ADsocrates00104 күн бұрын

    Wrong qeustion asked to shah halim as failure of CPI(M) is not failure of left...CPM has digressed from leftist ideology since long..shah halim does not belong to Bengal and unaware of Bengal politics

  • @Amitavac
    @Amitavac4 күн бұрын

    A beautiful interview.. Congratulations to Deep to let Ms Saira Shah Halim pour her heart out on '24 elections...❤

  • @duhduh666
    @duhduh6664 күн бұрын

    Ballygunge is an elite neighbourhood. One of the posher areas of Calcutta/Kolkata.

  • @Gaajrkahlwa123
    @Gaajrkahlwa1234 күн бұрын

    I am a common man from Bengal,can't forget Sainbari case.i think bcs of left Bengal is still burning in political violence,Left main cader is in TMC. If u see Kerala over 300 bjp workers lost their life,is left says BJP is communal can they justify political killing has done by a political ideology.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    Okay Sir. Sainbari is very old case.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    BJP worker are very rude and arrogant. So they pay the price of their crude threats when they lose.

  • @Gaajrkahlwa123

    @Gaajrkahlwa123

    3 күн бұрын

    @@sauron2000000 1947 indipendence day,old case pls forget.issue not old and gold, neither Congress or BJP how human thinking gets so cruel. We the people of Bengal won't forget that

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    @@Gaajrkahlwa123 😆😆😆😆😆 Sainbari victim were Khangress. If people of Waste Bengal cared so much, Khangress would have never lost till 2016. Nah, nobody really cared.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    @@Gaajrkahlwa123 Victims were Congress members. Congress should have won all elections till 2016 in case it was a big deal for common people.

  • @garnachowoodutd
    @garnachowoodutd5 күн бұрын

    First learn bangla Saira shah.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    5 күн бұрын

    Joy Bangla. true.

  • @dr.s.mallick

    @dr.s.mallick

    4 күн бұрын

    ​@@sauron2000000তৃণু নাকি?

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    4 күн бұрын

    @@dr.s.mallick Bangla Pokkho. Joy Garga.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    4 күн бұрын

    @@dr.s.mallick Joy Lenin. Joy Stalin. Joy Pol Pot.

  • @dr.s.mallick

    @dr.s.mallick

    4 күн бұрын

    @@sauron2000000 হ্যা তৃণুরা পলপটের ভক্ত। এটা আমি জানি।

  • @HappyCrocodileHiding-py9sf
    @HappyCrocodileHiding-py9sf2 күн бұрын

    Anytime for this lady, fight and fight, success is bound to be achived , it might take little time ❤❤ red 🫡 salute ❤❤

  • @rijzone
    @rijzone5 күн бұрын

    Good to see Deep reaching out to CPM

  • @dilipsharma3878
    @dilipsharma38783 күн бұрын

    Laughable, she is saying that CPM let TMC to win Bengal so that the people of Bengal could differentiate between them and CPM.

  • @indology7975
    @indology79754 күн бұрын

    Biggest problem of Bengal is Huge bihari and UP population entered in Bengal so they can change the MLA of a area also.

  • @Anonymous-sf4hw

    @Anonymous-sf4hw

    4 күн бұрын

    Example is she herself

  • @abhisen6745

    @abhisen6745

    3 күн бұрын

    Then how adhir ranjan chowdhury lost in berhampur? Beaten by a gujrati muslim tmc yusuf pathan. Who changed the MP there? Adhir ranjan was MP for last 30 years. Bjp came 3rd.

  • @williamsamaddar6510
    @williamsamaddar65104 күн бұрын

    Provincialism must be discouraged throughout India.

  • @gilgamesh-rc2pb

    @gilgamesh-rc2pb

    4 күн бұрын

    Why so?

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    3 күн бұрын

    No never.

  • @kanjilalbaishali
    @kanjilalbaishali5 күн бұрын

    Dear sir someone remind her of a term called PTSD 34 years of a milder version of what is being done by TMC Why is she being interviewed A nobody, aspiring Mp from Kolkata who can’t be bothered to learn her local language Shameless promotion

  • @drrmdebnath8356
    @drrmdebnath83565 күн бұрын

    Nothing stopping u ..left voters went to tmc,a little part went to bjp....now close ur shop

  • @ayanisbest
    @ayanisbest5 күн бұрын

    What a bull crap politician with 0 seats she is speaking loud

  • @yatch989
    @yatch9894 күн бұрын

    Budha babu best cm of west bengal history

  • @extrovertprobashi535
    @extrovertprobashi5353 күн бұрын

    West Bengal founder was a right wing leader Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee...may be u are not aware of West Bengal History ...being follower of Foreign Ideology and born in a Family that follows a foreign faith from Arab

  • @abhirajtarafdar
    @abhirajtarafdar2 күн бұрын

    Watched this now. Its State of Bengal

  • @spiderman79ify
    @spiderman79ify2 күн бұрын

    This interview unwittingly gives out whatever is wrong with left front in Bengal. A leader who has no connect with the masses, who has completely zero idea about the ground realities and issues of the people, bursting out in impeccable English, in avery suave manner, that the people are repeatedly making a mistake in choosing TMC or BJP. This is sheer arrogance, although shrouded in humility. She didnot talk about the crumbling of the left allies in Bengal, she didnot talk about the lack of any clear cut political stand or vision for the state of CPI(M), she didnot talk about geronotocracy where all the decision making positions in the party are being held by people above 70 years, and, most importantly she didnot talk about the failure of the left and specifically CPI (M) to put up any effective fight or consistent opposition to TMC. This is where BJP has come in. They outright oppose TMC, in speech and action. CPI(M) on the other hand goes about doing a monkey balancing act of opposing both BJP and TMC and end up opposing none. This has veered the minority vote to TMC, and that's why it appears that TMC is winning smoothly, but in reality TMC has been steadily losing ground among the non minority section and are walking extreme tigh rope situation.

  • @anincognito

    @anincognito

    2 күн бұрын

    Chinese people call them 'princeling'.

  • @wolfenstein1369
    @wolfenstein13695 күн бұрын

    Please do not promote such a foreign ideology which does not have any roots or any relationship with our culture..the speaker herself not aware of bengal”s history of nationalism .. who was shyamaprasad mukherjee and how the roots of bjp started from him by saving the same bengal where she is sitting and faking narratives…also bjp is not westernised “right” or “ fascist”..this is a lie..knowledge empowers but half knowledge kills a race..

  • @sauron2000000
    @sauron20000005 күн бұрын

    Yes.

  • @HumbleSubmission
    @HumbleSubmissionКүн бұрын

    As always...living in denial 😪 Once in Power it was Step-Motherly Attitude of Center even during UPA where they were a part of the Govt. and now its the fault of Half-Educated People of Bengal to blame! Learn from Mamta...who never blame the system, rather worked relentlessly to convert it in her favour! Beervogyya Vasundhara!!

  • @arabindananda6031
    @arabindananda60312 күн бұрын

    As there is no public unrest for their rights for a longtime organised by left public lost interest in left .

  • @satyajitbera5340
    @satyajitbera5340Күн бұрын

    👍👍👍

  • @VishalKhopkar1296
    @VishalKhopkar12965 күн бұрын

    What kind of politics have we reduced ourselves to? Mamata is giving ₹1000, we would give more... democracy doesn't deserve ppl like these

  • @EoamerGaming97

    @EoamerGaming97

    4 күн бұрын

    U mean the free ration that has been given to the people of India for the last 10 years is not the same kind of politics?

  • @VishalKhopkar1296

    @VishalKhopkar1296

    4 күн бұрын

    ​@@EoamerGaming97when did i say i supported that

  • @anubratabhattacharya5367
    @anubratabhattacharya53672 күн бұрын

    Left is no more because all left voters are now voting for BJP, which is an oxymoron in itself. But its the reality nonetheless. The communal angle is bullshit.

  • @user-sx4mq6zn9o
    @user-sx4mq6zn9o3 күн бұрын

    Good interview.

  • @mintusaren895
    @mintusaren8952 күн бұрын

    Bear no responsility.

  • @aveekbanerjee2164
    @aveekbanerjee21642 күн бұрын

    Madam, also speak about the rise of Jamaat in West Bengal.

  • @aloklal99
    @aloklal994 күн бұрын

    To Shekhar Gupta: Gupta ji, what is the point of such videos in your KZread feed? You sent someone who has memorized a set of questions that he's asking then in order without making any attempt to deal with the shoddy answers by the interviewee? A class high school kid would have challenged the interviewee better. Can you keep such lame items to the print version and not clog the KZread feed with such items, please? Please be respectful of your audience. People spend their time on your channel because they feel that your journalism would make us better citizens; we don't come to you to be served up bull crap by party hacks. I expected better from The Print! 😒

  • @RajanRaj-po9xr
    @RajanRaj-po9xr5 күн бұрын

    Mamta is silent on exodas of kasmir minority.what is mamta party foreign policy. India has extreme internal security threat from marksist region and Abraham region. Kasmir, Manipur, bengal, naksalist area etc. 65+ Congress ruled India , didn't did anything. They all want to damage Hindu religion.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    5 күн бұрын

    Kashmir Exodus is history.

  • @sauron2000000

    @sauron2000000

    5 күн бұрын

    All North Indian politicians have been quiet on Bengali Hindu exodus from Assam.

  • @EoamerGaming97

    @EoamerGaming97

    4 күн бұрын

    Farak ni padhta jaisa North States ke bahar bhi yehi chiZ he.Problem he ki jabtak tum North wale dusre States ke problem ko prioritize Nehi karoge tab tak dusre States me bhi yehi hoga

  • @kishorechakraborty2684

    @kishorechakraborty2684

    4 күн бұрын

    ​@@sauron2000000Exactly.

  • @rocku4evr

    @rocku4evr

    4 күн бұрын

    Even MOdi is silent...just check last year how many KPs were killed or booted out

  • @theverbalindian3252
    @theverbalindian32524 күн бұрын

    The Communist Party will definitely return in West Bengal.❤️❤️❤️ But before that, BJP needs to be removed. ✅✅✅ People need to be convinced that only CPI(M) can remove Trinamool, BJP cannot।

  • @anincognito
    @anincognito2 күн бұрын

    She seems to be the goddess of lies. If BJP is a fascist force, then her party is also fascist. We saw the monolithic rule of CPIM where the 'om' word was - amra and ora. CPIM divided us vertically into amra and ora. Jyoti Basu publicly lamented the loss of 1100 lives of 'amra'. He never talked of the lives of 'ora' of the 70's. During CPIM rule, ora was equivalent to homo sapiens while amra was the same for homo cpm. In fact, they were a superior species in the state. Jobs, cards, prime land, govt apartments - they had the first claim. A road was built during their time that time was named after Halden, though the city has nothing to remember P C Maholanobis. At the centenary year of Udayshakar, Buddhadeb offered to rename a small auditorium after his name. Buddhadeb, himself, grabbed a prime apartment at the cost of a peanut. I remember Mamatashanker broke down into tears. As regards the claim of communal association, it was the CPIM that was in league of BJP from 1977 to 1993, that is, one year after the destruction of the Babri Structure. That too, after a party resolution was adopted. In 2014 election, her party openly fought against the Congress and was indirectly responsible for a BJP comeback. The allegation that Mamata gave permission to open RSS Shakhas are hilarious. I doubt the mental integrity of the person. On the other hand, when Advani came to this state on his Rath, Basu's police escorted him through Purulia. It was Lalu Yadav who had the gut to arrest him. As regards the communal situation during CPIM rule, she must know that there was a counter violence on us at the Garden Reach, Matiaburuz area after Babri demolition. One CPI activist Arun Tiwary was killed. Several temples were desecrated. Thousands of Hindus left their house for safety on that night. She said that her party and Congress put up a common front to fight the fascist (BJP) forces. Why then her party exempted Kerala from that policy? Why did Kerala CM say, Glaxo Baby to Rahul? Most of her statements were out of her social science book of class ten. I am fortunate that I didn't have to vote for her.

  • @Aamadmi-zz2np
    @Aamadmi-zz2np4 күн бұрын

    Cpim will win ........

  • @yatch989
    @yatch9894 күн бұрын

    Left has become B team of TMC it seems

  • @ranjanmanas834
    @ranjanmanas8345 күн бұрын

    UAPA yaad h na madam.

  • @north_indian_pajeet_rendian_mc
    @north_indian_pajeet_rendian_mc2 күн бұрын

    She's a bohiragoto or outsider.

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