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Testing time for India's Marxists
Disillusionment among poor rural voters imperils leftists' three-decade-long rule in West Bengal state.
Last Modified: 18 Apr 2011 18:05

Economic hardships in the Indian state of West Bengal have increasingly left voters there disillusioned with politics.

That has presented a challenge to the state's Marxists, who have ruled the area for the last three decades.

Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the situation for farmers in West Bengal.
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