However since five years the Government is really to attract capital

For the seventh time in a row, the Communist Party Indian-Marxist (CPI - M) should be re-elected as head of the West Bengal at the end of the elections in this state of the East of the India since yesterday. The result of the vote in five phases, which aims to renew the Regional Assembly, is in fact no great mystery. In power since soon three decades, the Bangladeshi Communists are assured to win since their main opponent is none other than the Congress Party, they support at the federal level. However, at the head of the country for nearly two years, Congress can do without the support of the extreme left to keep New Delhi, and is therefore doing its best to not interfere with his partner in its historic stronghold. Symbol of the complexity of Indian federalism, regional enemies national allies. And if the leftmost weighs its weight to try to curb the economic reforms at the federal level, it does not hesitate to be more liberal than the Congress in the State that it leads.

Long known as "the nightmare of the companies" because of Union militancy which reigned in the 1980s, the West Bengal is today the most attractive possible. Finished the strikes and sit-ins and the kidnappings of patterns, place to liberalism. Reserved land, subsidized electricity and even taxes eased for service activities: the regional government to attract investors, both Indian nationals. Determined to Calcutta, the regional capital, a new high-tech hub, it even granted to the computer industry public service utility"status, so that the employees can go to the Office without be concerned the days of strike.

"The radicalism of the last decades has resulted the departure of dozens of industries, which has led to unemployment, says Ravi Poddar, Chairman of the Indian Confederation of industry for the region." CPI - M has been slow to realize his mistake, because it focused its attention on the campaigns. However, since five years, the Government is really to attract capital. "The liberal shift dates to 2001, when the very radical Jyoti Basu, who headed the State since 1977, has given way to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, much more pragmatic. While his party denounced almost daily timid economic reforms New Delhi, he continued in his State a surprisingly liberal policy. Privatize more than a dozen businesses and sell to private agricultural land groups.

Reassure the traditional electorate

"Here, the party is more Communist than the name." "Action, it is reform," it says in the West Bengal Investment Development Board, the body responsible for attracting investors. They also well understood: the State class today at the second national rank in terms of investments, and giants like IBM, Mitsubishi and General Electric are more reluctant to settle. In this context, many observers say that the intransigence of the CPI - M to economic reforms by Congress two years ago was in large part to reassure his traditional electorate in Bengal, composed of small farmers and workers. "Once the elections past, they will be much more supportive", also believes a great pattern of Calcutta under cover of anonymity.