{
  "id": 15055604,
  "title": "Left parties allege attack on bookstalls; Calcutta High Court stays previous order allowing stalls",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/left-parties-allege-attack-on-bookstalls-calcutta-high-court-stays",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T21:59:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/left-parties-allege-attack-on-bookstalls-calcutta-high-court-stays-previous-order-allowing-stalls/article71592761.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Left parties have accused the authorities of attacking their bookstalls set up outside Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) had been granted permission to establish such stalls by the Calcutta High Court. However, the court recently stayed its previous order, allowing the stalls to be set up. Left Front leaders maintain that these stalls are an expression of \"free thinking\" and a way to promote diverse ideas. They claim that the current government is cracking down on their activities, threatening to set up more stalls as a form of protest. CPI(M) West Bengal, CPI(ML) Liberation, and the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) have all accused right-wing affiliated individuals of attacking their stalls, vandalising them, and making verbal threats.",
  "summary": "Party leaders have said that this is an attack on “free thinking” and have vowed to set up more stalls as a form of protest",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}