28th July, 2008 - Siliguri under bandh grip

Breakaway congress leaders had difficult time in finding alphabets to name their newly found Congress party. And many of them still struggles. Communists had different ideas. They did not make any alphabets but named the founders name in full. So tomorrow you can expect CPM(Somnath), CPM(Karat), CPM(Raja) etc. It is one of these breakaway factions that called for a Siliguri bandh. The CPI-Ml (Mahadeb Mukherjee faction) called a bandh to mark the death anniversary of Naxalite leader Charu Mazumdar. The bandh call by the Naxalite faction also had a major impact in North Dinajpur district.