Letter to BS: Debacle of the Left Front in Tripura is a dreadful sign

According to the fifth employment-unemployment survey published in 2016 by the Labour Bureau

With reference to “Left out” (March 6), the debacle of the Left Front in Tripura is a dreadful sign that has brought the communist movement in India to the brink of an existential crisis. 

The primary cause for the drubbing of the Left in Tripura may be attributed to the dominance of a majoritarian Bengali culture despite tribals comprising 31 per cent of the state’s population. The Left Front government could curb the decades-long insurgency in the state. Yet it failed to tackle the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura, a separatist tribal party that could conflagrate the apprehension of indigenous people