The Left-wing extremists of West Bengal have given themselves a new cause to fight for-pollution control. On 18 December, the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) set alight a sponge iron factory at Jhargram in West Midnapore district. The next day, its top leader Ko-teshwar Rao told state environment secretary M.L. Meena on the phone that they gutted the factory because it was polluting the environment.
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