Bengal's minority report puts CPM in the red

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Buddhadeb called in the army in Kolkata, but let Nandigram simmer.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee invited the Army over within hours of minority community rioters taking over the streets of Kolkata. He hadn't done so in a Nandigram simmering with tension for over 11 months. For once, it was evident, that he didn't want the state police to get the blame for firing on Muslims. A reckless government was frightened out of its wits that the minority vote was finally slipping away. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and his party apparatchiks were terrified. And the violent scenes of Kolkata on Wednesday with arsonists torching buses, pelting stones at passing vehicles and hooligans aiming brickbats at policemen were seriously alarming. The Muslim in West Bengal seemed to be announcing his grave disappointment with the Left. Idris Ali of the All India Minority Forum has long been associated....