Politics and Strange Bedfellows: Marxists at the Receiving end

Politics, they say makes strange bedfellows. And we thought we had seen enough of this in this country during the last decade. But the last week's spectacle in West Bengal seemed stranger than fiction, where people and parties holding extreme and conflicting political views, seemed to have converged.

While it was not at all surprising that the fading firebrand and Trinamul Congress chief Mamta Banerjee was visited and supported by the BJP's compromise president, Rajnath Singh as she fasted fighting for the Singur farmers, what really made strange bedfellows was that the extreme left in the form of Naxals, who seem to be regrouping after years in West Bengal, also made common cause.
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