Nabendu Dasgupta

Jute Industry is again hogging the limelight in West Bengal, albeit, for all the wrong reasons. Despite a bumper crop of raw jute, the owners of jute mills are closing down mills one after another on the plea of a raw jute crisis. At a time when the third wave of COVID is ravaging the state in particular, more than 12 jute mills have shut down their operations, rendering thousands and thousands of workers jobless. Many more are operating with shorter and fewer shifts and reduced workforce. 

People of West Bengal, particularly the working class of the state voted decisively and conclusively against the BJP during the recently concluded assembly election. Political observers are of the opinion that this is a defeat of Modi - Amit Shah duopoly, who travelled by air to this state in the thick of election like daily passengers and who frantically tried to capture Bengal. It was also held as a befitting reply to the EC, which was shamelessly bent in favour of Modi and BJP dragging the polls for 8 phases amid raging second wave of COVID.