[2] Initially the paper started as an organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal State Committee.

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.

Ganashakti reached its highest circulation at the time of Biswas's editorship.