Ganashakti

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Ganashakti
Type	Daily newspaper
Format

Owner	Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal State Committee
Publisher	Narayan Dutta
Editor	Narayan Dutta
Associate Editor	Abheek Dutta
Founded
Political allegiance	Communist
Language	Bengali
Headquarters	Kolkata, West Bengal

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 1980's. After Mukherjee's death his efforts were carried on by Anil Biswas, who was editor of the daily.