By adopting General Shankar Roy Chowdhury as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha, the Left Front thinks that it has staged a political coup, even if its cynical choice of candidate represents a symbolic concession to Bonapartism. Curiously, it appears quite unconcerned with the political orientation of the person whose candidature it is endorsing.
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