Ganashakti

Ganashakti
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Ganashakti Trust
Editor	Samik Lahiri
Associate editor	Atanu Saha
Political alignment	Left wing
Language	Bengali
Headquarters	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Website	ganashakti.com

Ganashakti Patrika (1967-present; Bengali: গণশক্তি) is an Indian Bengali daily newspaper published from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.^[2] Initially the paper started as an organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal State Committee.^[3]

History

It first appeared as a fortnightly in 1967 and then it started as an evening daily for quite some time and finally converted into a full-fledged daily newspaper. Presently Ganashakti has 3 editions in Kolkata, Durgapur and Siliguri having a daily circulation of less than 7,50,000. It's one of the founder was Ashok Gupta or Ramendranath Bhattacharya, who fought in Goa Liberation movement and he was a prominent Marxist leader of West Bengal.

The principal catalyst behind transformation of Ganashakti was Saroj Mukherjee, a freedom fighter and CPI(M)'s state secretary during the 1980s. After Mukherjee's death his efforts were carried on by Anil Biswas. Ganashakti reached its highest circulation at the time of Biswas's editorship. Ganashakti trust is the owner of the Ganashakti newspaper. Present the paper is running by a trust^[4] and the editor is Samik Lahiri.^[5]