Ganashakti
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| Ganashakti | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Owner | Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal State Committee |
| Publisher | Narayan Dutta |
| Editor | Narayan Dutta |
| Associate Editor | Abheek Dutta |
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| Political allegiance | Communist |
| Language | Bengali |
| Headquarters | Kolkata, West Bengal |
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| Website: www.ganashakti.com | |
Ganashakti Patrika is the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal State Committee, which first appeared as a fortnightly in 1967. Then it appeared as an evening daily for quite some time and finally converted into a full-fledged daily newspaper.
It is published in Bengali, with online and English weekly editions, and is widely read in the city of Kolkata and the surrounding area.
Although, a party mouthpiece, it covers wide range of issues including travel, literature, science, and technology. It claims to one of the best science & technology pages of all Bengali dailies.
A unique feature of the paper is its display on roadside woodboards throughout Kolkata and its suburbs allowing people who can't afford a newspaper to read it.
The principal catalyst behind transformation of Ganashakti was Saroj Mukherjee, a freedom fighter and CPI(M)'s state secretary during the 1980s. After Mukherjee's death his efforts were carried on by Anil Biswas, who was editor of the daily.
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