CHANGING FACE OF LEFT

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CREDENTIALS

NAME: BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE
DESIGNATION: Chief Minister
STATE:West Bengal

Few of the first congratulatory message that he received after leading his party to overwhelming victory was from TATA GROUP chairaman Ratan Tata followed by calls from Bene Santosa, head of Indonesian conglomerate, Salim Group.Buddahadeb a theatre and literature buff, a left hardliner has embraced policies of liberalisation with ease.He succeded Jyoti Basu as Chief Minister of West Bengal in November, 2000 & he has emerged as a poster boy of economic reform in West Bengal.He publicly opposed his party's agitation against privatisation of Delhi & Mumbai airports and also supported pension reforms.Corporates say that he's very sincere,transparent,honest action-oriented & very approachable. He's also woking on lines of THE OPEN DOOR POLICIES of Den Xiaoping. As When Deng Xiaoping came to power in the early 1980s, China was attempting to deal with the expanded capitalism that had been suggested as a result of the state visit of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. By adopting a modified version of capitalism, known generally as "socialistic capitalism" Deng Xiaoping instituted wide-sweeping social and economic reforms in the attempt to turn a Communist society into one where personal income was not only accepted but seen as a logical goal (Nathan & Shi, 1996, 534). China, whose very name means "The Middle Kingdom" (as in the center of the world), having some 7,000 years worth of "adapting" quickly assumed some of the aspects of ..."
'Why should we oppose foreign companies if they create jobs? Whey should we oppose setting up of malls by MNCs and call centres if they provide employement to our jobless youth?" he asked.So question is can he be India's Deng Xiaoping? We'll still have to wait n watch.But one thing is sure he truely represents changing face of Left.