India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses his supporters during an election campaign meeting ahead of state assembly election in Dehri, eastern state of Bihar October 23, 2020. — Reuters picMAKRAMPUR, March 25 — Shoubhik Dolai was riddled with bullets in West Bengal, the killing fields of Indian politics where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing hard to win power for the first time in elections starting Saturday.
Dolai, 26, who died last month, was an activist with the regional Trinamool Congress party headed by Mamata Banerjee, a wily firebrand who has run the state since ending three decades of communist rule in 2011. Other states going to the polls in the coming weeks include Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, as the BJP tries to increase the number of regions it governs — currently 17 out of 36.Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, a political scientist in West Bengal’s capital Kolkata, said that the state’s bloody politics date back to the late 1960s with the rise of the hard-left Naxalite movement.
In one of the most horrific killings, a mob killed two brothers in the 1970s and forced their mother to eat rice smeared in their blood. Activists from both parties have been shot or hacked to death, their bodies sometimes hung from trees.
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