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NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Sunday, May 15, 2011

West Bengal's longtime Communist government falls

Trinamool Congress party supporters celebrate outside the residence of party leader Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata. Her victory marked the end of the Communist government

A major blow for freedom came in India this week.  The mercurial Mamata Banerjee, 56, led her Trinamool Congress party to a decisive victory over the Communist Party of India (Marxist).  This ended the reign of a party that proudly displayed portraits of Karl Marx and Josef Stalin on office walls, held politburos and whose members called one another "comrade."

Banerjee's decisive win — her party took three-quarters of the state's 294 seats — turns her into a powerhouse on the national stage.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-elections-20110514,0,2906706.story

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