Jammu, May 13 -- The State Has So Many Advantages But Too Much Politicalisation Disrupted Growth

By Kunal Bose

KOLKATA: Since the time Dr BC Roy died in harness in 1962, West Bengal, first slowly but surely and then quite rapidly was overtaken by darkness. Not only did the physician extraordinaire cum politician had a vision for the state, which bore the brunt of partition more than any other region of the country, but his equation of the prime minister of the day Jawaharlal Nehru created the condition for central government investment in steel, heavy industries and infrastructure. The cordiality between Dr Roy and Nehru made federalism work seamlessly. But the regimes, Congress and non-Congress, that followed were either inept or had p...