WEST BENGAL-Centre Flexes Its Muscles

THE Congress (I) in West Bengal, clearly with the connivance, if not at the initiative, of the supreme leader, has been flexing its muscles for launching on a fullscale liberation' .struggle a la the 1959 Kerala exercise to topple the Left Front government The first round of the operation, conducted in front of the eastern gate of the Raj Hhavvan in Calcutta on March 30, took a toll or three lives. The second round, in the form of a statewide bandh in protest against the earlier loss of lives, extracted a fresh crop of about a dozen corpses. The number of people injured on the two occasions runs into hundreds, according to Press reports, not to ipetition the number of buses and tra s bombed or set on fire.