Kolkata/IBNS, May 10 -- In a politically loaded irony in West Bengal, CPI(M) mouthpiece Ganashakti on Friday carried a full front-page advertisement announcing the swearing-in ceremony of the new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state - the very party the Left is opposing as "communal".

The advertisement was not a routine government publicity campaign issued days later, but a prominent front-page announcement published on the very day of the oath-taking ceremony at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Ground, making the optics even more striking.

The development quickly sparked reactions online and within political circles, with many pointing to the contradiction of the CPI(M)'s official newspaper prominently featuring a celebratory B...