state. ‘The Left never played caste politics openly. It spoke of class enemies – the haves versus the have-nots. But now the Right Wing has, in a sense, identified the compulsion of the Dalit to be part of a larger social structure, because no matter what the Left would have you believe, caste exists in Bengal. The Right Wing has its focus on Dalits and OBCs, who are often on the receiving end of communal flare-ups in the villages.’
