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Video: CPM claims BJP 'goons attacked, broke Lenin statue' in Bengal's Murshidabad

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Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary who led the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Soviet Union, becoming one of the most influential communist leaders, having overwhelming influence in West Bengal politics under the CPM regime, which was uprooted by the TMC's Mamata Banerjee after three decades in 2011. The party said it registered a police complaint, leading to arrest of five and vowed to rebuild the statue on May 8.

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Video: CPM claims BJP 'goons attacked, broke Lenin statue' in Bengal's Murshidabad

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