 The Lalgarh movement, which started attracting attention after the failed assassination attempt on Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then chief minister of West Bengal, in the Salboni area of the Paschim Medinipur district, on 2 November 2008 and the police action that followed, had also spread over to these areas.The movement was not just a political struggle but an armed struggle that concurrently took the look of a social struggle.A large number of CPI (M) activists were killed.