Ganashakti Patrika

Ganashakti Patrika is a Bengali newspaper and enjoys the distinction of being the official mouthpiece of the West Bengal’s unit of Indian Communist Party. The first edition of Ganashakti Patrika appeared in 1967 as a fortnightly newspaper. Before being transformed into a full-fledged daily newspaper, it was published as an evening daily. Ganashakti Patrika also has an online edition and the English edition of the newspaper is published weekly. The newspaper has a good circulation in the capital city of Kolkata and other districts of West Bengal.

Saroj Mukherjee, an active freedom fighter and the state secretary of CPI (M)'s during the 1980's influenced the newspaper with his thoughts and converted Ganashakti into voice of Communism. After the demise of Mukherjee, Anil Biswas, has been carrying on the responsibility. Anil Biswas was the editor of the newspaper.

The political thoughts, activities and achievements of the West Bengal’s unit of Indian Communist Party are published in Ganashakti Patrika . Even though Ganashakti is an official mouthpiece of Communist Party of West Bengal, it covers all kinds of news and issues related to society, travel, literature, culture, science, and technology. The newspaper claims that it publishes one of the top science and technology articles among all the Bengali newspaper.

Many writers and political thinkers share their views through Ganashakti Patrika. A unique characteristic of Ganashakti is that it is displayed everyday on roadside woodboards of Kolkata and even in the suburbs. It is an interesting way of propogating knowledge for those people who can't afford to buy a newspaper to read.