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India's most developed states, has a history of electing movie stars to the top office. In Kerala, another southern state, the Indian National Congress-led opposition defeated the ruling communist
history of religious cleavages, Bengal displayed a much more complex post-independence political trajectory. It elected a communist government in 1977, which remained in power for a record 34 consecutive years before the Trinamool Congress
communist leader, became the state’s first chief minister. His government brought about important land and education reforms in the state. But those reforms sparked major protests from the Congress – ruling nationally, but in opposition
ruled by Trinamool Congress (TMC), a key opposition party, under the leadership ofMamata Banerjee, their female chief minister. Banerjee had been one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his religious nationalist agenda over