India, June 16 -- In China, many years ago, there was the Tiananmen Square incident. Police firing took place, and a massive student protest movement shook the Communist authoritarian government at that time.

Even today, I remember the analysis made by CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat about China. He had said that China tried to open the window, but immediately, some mosquitoes entered the room through that window, and those mosquitoes bit them, eventually causing malaria.

Looking at the current political situation in West Bengal and the condition of the Trinamool Congress, that old Tiananmen Square analogy suddenly came back to my mind. I believe it is not an irrelevant comparison. The present situation in West Bengal is not simply that TM...