12-11-2005, 01:01 PM
<b>Why Bengalis took to Communism. To find out the reason one has to see the pressure of population on the State of West Bengal since 1947. The State had to receive several million refugees from East Pakistan and later from Bangladesh. The assistance given by the Centre was not adequate and the plan for their rehabilitation on a all India basis never got implemented. It in the process destroyed the social fibre of the rural districts of West Bengal. The original inhabitants of the State become a minority and the decision making came in the hand of the refugees. They had nothing to loose and consequently they easily fell in the trap of the Communists. Luckly, there was no total revolution in the State as on coming to power the Communist leaders soon picked up the capitalist way of life and endulged in all the vices associated with the system.</b>.