When you figure that Naxals/Maoists were TMC all along, then yeah, they became Panchayat members and looted the state exchequer clean - then sure that's big-time development. And that's excluding freebies at the taxpayer's expense. Tablet for every damn school student, freebies for specific religions/cults. Yeah, development much - developed the most scheming vote bank alright.

Do you know what communists do when they rise to power? They assassinate the violent tool they used to get there, so they don't enable their next competitor. Look this dude up: Kishenji.

For years CPM govt couldn't find it. White death came to power and in the same year, the elusive Maoist leader is shot dead. And not by Central/COBRA forces, who are real commandos and had been hunting for him for years on end, but by Pot-bellied WB police.
Did they get a superpower from the new govt.?