• Attempted to reduce the influence of powerful trade unions in the state, particularly in the industrial sector, to attract investments and improve work culture.

• Played a key role in establishing the Kolkata International Film Festival and promoted Bengali literature.
• Authored several books and translated works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Vladimir Mayakovsky into Bengali, enriching the state’s cultural heritage.
• Introduced measures to eliminate corruption in school recruitments by ensuring all hiring was conducted through transparent exams.
• Initiated reforms to integrate mainstream subjects into madrassa education.

• Led efforts to industrialize West Bengal by attracting investments in IT, steel, and special economic zones (SEZs), including the Tata Nano project in Singur.
• Faced significant opposition and protests in Singur and Nandigram over land acquisition, which ultimately contributed to the political decline of the Left Front.

PYQ:

[2011] Karl Marx explained the process of class struggle with the help of which one of the following theories?

(a) Empirical liberalism

(b) Existentialism

(c) Darwin’s theory of evolution

(d) Dialectical materialism