The continued practise of violence and vengeance is a stain on democratic principles as well as all standards of decent behaviour. Ironically, a governance paradigm for a watershed is connected to its origin. Bengal’s rural areas were altered by the Left Front’s decentralisation of authority, laying the groundwork for its three-decade dominance.
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Additionally, this made sure that the broad rural belt became deeply ingrained with state power structures. Partisanship was an inevitable outcome of the political nature of the panchayat elections.
The social division weakened the advancements. The rank and file would do everything to maintain or seize authority out of fear of the retaliatory violence that losing political and economic control may bring about. Bloodshed in elections for the Lok Sabha, Assembly, or panchayats became routine as a result.
All parties have denounced the violence that has taken multiple lives this time around, regardless of ideologies. There is no indication that the story will be changed in any way. Even in the panchayat elections in 2013 and 2018, poll-day fatalities dominated the news. An unfortunate indictment on the situation there is the deployment of central troops during panchayat elections.
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West Bengal has the most political killings nationwide, according to the 2021 National Crime Records Bureau report. Since 1999, it has been keeping track of 20 of these killings every year on average. Both the police and the polling panel are responsible for a lot. An agreement to cease the savagery must be reached politically to address the persistent subculture of fear and wrath.
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