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Ganashakti

Ganashakti
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Ganashakti Trust
EditorSamik Lahiri[1]
Associate editorAtanu Saha
Political alignmentLeft wing
LanguageBengali
HeadquartersKolkata, West Bengal, India
Websiteganashakti.com

Ganashakti Patrika (1967-present; Bengali: গণশক্তি) is an Indian Bengali daily newspaper published from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.[2] Initially the paper started as an organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal State Committee.[3]

History

It first appeared as a fortnightly in 1967 and then it started as an evening daily for quite some time and finally converted into a full-fledged daily newspaper. Presently Ganashakti has 3 editions in Kolkata, Durgapur and Siliguri having a daily circulation of less than 7,50,000. It's one of the founder was Ashok Gupta or Ramendranath Bhattacharya, who fought in Goa Liberation movement and he was a prominent Marxist leader of West Bengal.

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. Ganashakti reached its highest circulation at the time of Biswas's editorship. Ganashakti trust is the owner of the Ganashakti newspaper. Present the paper is running by a trust[4] and the editor is Samik Lahiri.[5]

References

  1. ^ "West Bengal CPM: রাজ্য কমিটিতে বিকাশ, 'গণশক্তি'র দায়িত্বে শমীক".
  2. ^ "s CPM the B-team of BJP? Govt ad in party paper 'Ganashakti' sparks fresh debat". Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  3. ^ Ganashakti ganashakti.com. Retrieved 30 December 2012
  4. ^ Sengupta, Tamal (12 January 2017). "CPI(M) sets up trust to run Ganashakti newspaper". The Economic Times. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  5. ^ "জল্পনাই সত্যি, সিপিএমের দলীয় মুখপত্রের সম্পাদক বদল, নতুন দায়িত্বে শমীক লাহিড়ি". sangbadpratidin. Retrieved 12 July 2024.


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