Any UP chairman was always bigger than any local level journalist, no matter how big the media houses are nationally. Rise of local informal states and national sceneTHE problem may lie in the nature of the state functioning. The term ‘local’ leader, politics, economy, etc therefore, mean both ‘local’ and also ‘national’ at the local level. The ‘national’ and the ‘local’ are in conversation, negotiation and transaction with each other but are not the same. Babu had no reason to believe that he was not the ‘state’ at the local level; hence, he acted.

Source: bd News24 June 18, 2023 18:01 UTC