Left Front's foe-turned-friend

Biman Bose accused Gopalkrishna Gandhi of being biased towards the Trinamool Congress

The Left Front, headed by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), might be singing praises of the qualities of head and heart of the joint Opposition candidate for vice-president, Gopalkrishna Gandhi. But not too long ago, it wanted him ousted from the West Bengal governor’s post at any cost. It is Kolkata’s worst-kept secret that when the Left Front was in power in 2009, it wanted to see the last of Gandhi after he criticised the state government on the continuing post-poll violence in the state. Left Front chairman and CPI-M state secretary at the time, Biman Bose, accused Gandhi