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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2001 in India and The End of 34 Years of Left Front Rule
- Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
- Abbr : JAPS
- 2011, 18(2), pp.193~213
- DOI : 10.18107/japs.2011.18.2.009
- Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
- Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
ChanWahn KIm 1, 최미혜 1
1한국외국어대학교
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ABSTRACT
This study analyses West Bengal assembly elections 2001 ending the 34 years of Left Front rule in the state. This paper attempts to find out the key factors in defeating the Left Front in the elections from the 3 major variables which have decided the results of state assembly elections in India since the mid-2000s. It, namely, focuses on issues of development strategy, governance and leader's brand power. The study shows that these three variables significantly contributed to the defeat of the Left Front in West Bengal elections 2001.
Therefore, the Left Front in West Bengal has to make constant efforts to improve people’s participation and transparent process for policy decision making in their organizations, if it wants to regain people's support in the state. Further, the Front must foster a new leader with a strong base of people's support who can succeed Jyoti Basu and Buddhadev Bhattacharya. Above all, the Front has to concern a new development strategy which can overcome dilemma situation between rural development and industrial and urban development. Otherwise, the Left Front will decline further in West Bengal as it was in Punjab and be remained as a regional party in India.
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