 One interesting side of the widespread protest against land expropriation in Nandigram by the then left front government was the silence of the opposition parties and the intellectuals just about a decade ago when large scale land acquisition accompanied with protests by the farmers took place in the rural areas of the erstwhile Midnapore(now Paschim Medinipur) district of West Bengal 

In the aftermath of the West Bengal government's Special Economic Zone policy, in the elections of May 2008, CPI(M) and its allies were defeated in Nandigram and adjoining areas by the Trinamool Congress-SUCI alliance.The Trinamool Congress-SUCI alliance and the Congress wrested the Zilla Parishads from the CPI-M in three districts of the 16 districts of West Bengal out of the hands of CPI(M) after about 30 years.In March 2001, Nandigram II Block of Medinipur District claimed to have achieved full toilet coverage in the entire block.