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Saturday, February 5, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
CPI (M) ON SABARIMALA INCIDENT
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) issued the following statement on January 15, 2011.
THE Polit Bureau expresses its deep grief and shock at the loss of over a hundred lives and injuries to many due to an accident and stampede in Pulmedu in Idukki district of Kerala. The incident involved pilgrims returning from the Sabarimala temple.
All steps should be taken to provide succor and relief to the survivors of the tragedy. The Polit Bureau conveys its heartfelt sympathy and condolences to all those families who have suffered a grievous loss.
At the beginning of the meeting of the Polit Bureau at Kolkata, a minute’s silence was observed in memory of all those who have died.
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
VIOLENCE IN LALGARH: THE TRUTH BEHIND
THERE is now enough ground to conclude that the January 7 incident in Netai village in Lalgarh was pre-planned. For the last two years, many families in Netai were forced to leave the village. It was a kind of a den of the Maoists and the so-called People’s Committee. The villagers were tortured in many ways and a number of CPI (M) cadre were killed. In Lalgarh block alone, 72 CPI (M) activists were killed in the last two tears.
On December 31, 2010, a mammoth meeting of the CPI (M) was held in Lalgarh after nearly two years. Nearly a lakh people participated. It was the height of people’s desperate resistance to the Maoists. Many villagers from Netai participated in the meeting though the village itself is still dominated by the TMC-and the People’s Committee. After the meeting, the homeless people started to come back.
It is now reported that on January 6 night, a group of Maoists and trained cadre of the People’s Committee entered the village. They were led by one Tanmoy Roy, a TMC activist. He was the bike driver of Chhatradhar Mahato, the leader of People’s Committee, now in jail. On January 7 morning, a team of Maoists along with TMC cadre attacked the houses of those who had returned. It was naturally resisted, resulting in clashes. According to the DIG (Western Range), Anil Kumar, there was “exchange of fire.” According to eye witnesses, the armed group that started the attack began to fire indiscriminately, killing and injuring many villagers. It is evident that they were instructed to fire randomly. What they wanted was dead bodies, not necessarily of whom. The post mortem report of at least three persons suggested that they were fired from the back side. Seven people were killed and 18 injured.
As a part of the anti-CPI (M) maligning campaign, they are now seeking to present the incident in a different way --- as if the villagers had encircled a house where ‘armed’ CPI (M) cadre had gathered and then the latter fired upon the unarmed villagers from inside the house or from the rooftop. It is a travesty of truth. If it had been so, many villagers won’t have died after receiving bullets from the backside. After the incident, moreover, the mediapersons who visited the village noted a large number of bullet marks on the walls of the house where the CPI (M) cadre had allegedly collected and also on the walls of the neighbouring houses. This indicates that in fact it is the CPI (M) cadre who were fired upon; it was not the other way round.
On the very next day of the Netai incident, PCPA spokesman Dileep Hansda gave an interview to a private TV channel, in which he confirmed that the incident was a result of the attack launched by his organisation and by the Maoists on its back. According to Hindi daily Jansatta, January 9, Hansda presented the incident as a big deed of his organisation, declaring that “the camps of the CPI (M)’s harmad vahini in West Medinipur, Purulia and Bankura will be razed to the ground. Hansda also announced that attacks on the CPI (M) camps would continue in future as well, adding that the police and administration would be responsible if anything untoward happens. Hansda labelled the accusation that the CPM has become active in Jangal Mahal because of its politics of vote.” However, as it happened in the Gyaneshwari case, Maoists later made Hansda keep silent.
Be that as it may, by the time the PCPA spokesman accepted the responsibility for this incident, the TMC, Congress and the media supporting them had got enough time to present the Left cadre as the oppressors while in reality they are facing the brunt of the TMC-Maoist attacks in Jangal Mahal area. On her part, TMC supremo Ms Mamata Banerjee was hell bent upon proving that there were “armed camps” of the CPI (M) in Jangal Mahal. On her behalf, parroting her accusation, the union home minister too has so far written three letters to the state chief minister. The incident in Netai was pre-planned to ‘prove’ that such camps are indeed there.
It is another thing that despite the iota of success that they have received, the TMC-Maoist grouping has not been able to mislead the people of Jangal Mahal area. On Saturday, January 8, TMC leaders were in fact chased away from Netai when they reached to oversee Ms Mamata Banerjee’s programme there. The railway minister, however, went there without much of a noise. She was scheduled to address a public meeting in Lalgarh. All preparations were made, including the erection of a big stage and security barricades. But the people’s response was so low that Ms Mamata Banerjee cancelled the meeting.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
P. CHIDAMBRAM WRITES DISGRACEFUL LETTER TO BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE TO APPEASE MAMATA BANERJEE AND DEFEND MAOIST BUTCHERS
D.O. No. 119-CM
December 28, 2010
Dear Shri Chidambram,
Kindly refer to your secret letter dated 21/22 December, 2010 which had been published in the media before it reached my office on 27.12.2010 at 11 A.M.
Your assessment of the situation in the State of West Bengal is surprising and is far from an impartial overview of the situation. Maoists have spread from across the bordering states and with the help of small section of local people are creating problems mostly in 28 police stations in three districts of West Bengal. They are trying to create their own areas of dominance. They are indiscriminately killing political opponents and even innocent people. They are attacking police stations, police camps and looting arms. They are also engaged in large scale extortions and other unlawful activities.
You are fully aware of these activities of the Maoists. The greatest challenge is how to contain the Maoists and defeat them finally both administratively and politically.
In recent times State and Central Police through their joint efforts have achieved major successes. Peace and normalcy have been restored in vast areas. People who were evicted earlier are going back to their homes. Govt/Panchayat office are functioning normally and so are the schools, markets and shops. Life is gradually coming back to normalcy in these areas but still we have problem in the areas bordering our state. Trinamool Congress which was earlier maintaining secret contacts with Maoist leaders and outfits are now openly organising meetings with them.
CPI (M) and it allies are trying their best to resist the Maoists by mobilizing people against them and in the process have lost more than 170 of their workers and leaders. Unfortunately, you are now blaming them for the present state of affairs. I am afraid it will divert the attention of all concerned who are struggling against Maoists, the greatest threat to our internal security.
As regards political clashes mentioned in your letter I would like to correct your figures. 32 Trinamool Congress supporters have been killed and 601 have suffered injuries while CPI (M) have lost 69 of their cadres and another 723 have been injured. Indian National Congress has lost one of their supporters and 111 have been injured during the period mentioned in your letter. I, however, agree that it is not a happy situation and I am doing my best to stop these senseless killings. I have repeatedly appealed to all the opposition parties to cooperate. All the parties except Trinamool Congress have come forward to cooperate. Trinamool Congress has refused to talk to administration. I am trying to disarm and demoblise all armed groups engaged in violence in some pockets of the state.
I strongly object to your using the word “Harmed” to mean the CPI (M) party workers without knowing the actual meaning of this nasty word coined by Trinamool Congress leaders.
More when we meet.
With regards,
Yours sincerely,
Sd/-
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
Shri P. Chidambram
Union Home Minister
New Delhi-110 001
Sunday, December 26, 2010
COMRADE HARKISHAN SINGH SURJEET BHAWAN FUND
June to November 2010
684521.00
| S No. | Name and Address | Amount |
| 1. | Tripuramallu Ramalingeswara Rao, | 25000.00 |
| 2. | Dr. Srinivas, | 15000.00 |
| 3. | Dr. Lakshmanaswamy, Sajeevi Orthopedic, | 20000.00 |
| 4. | Chakka Gopala Krishna, | 10000.00 |
| 5. | Dr. P.V Manahor Rao, | 7000.00 |
| 6. | Dr. Subbanaidu, | 10000.00 |
| 7. | Dr. Ravibabu, Mediline hospital, Guntur | 10000.00 |
| 8. | Dr. G. Rajesh, | 7000.00 |
| 9. | Dr. J. Satish Babu, | 5000.00 |
| 10. | Dr. Subbarayudu, Pallvi theatre, Guntur | 5000.00 |
| 11 | Daruvu Subba Rao, Narasaraopet | 10000.00 |
| 12. | Bhaskara Rami Reddy, | 1000.00 |
| 13. | Ramineni Ankamma, | 10000.00 |
| 14. | Dr. N V K Prasad, | 10000.00 |
| 15. | Bathina Prasad, | 2116.00 |
| 16. | Dr. K Pullaiah Choudhar, | 2000.00 |
| 17. | Bayya Srinivas Rao, | 10000.00 |
| 18. | Annapurna Auto agency, Guntur | 50000.00 |
| 19. | | 10000.00 |
| 20 | Lakshimi Kantamma, | 10000.00 |
| 21. | Venkateswara Rao, | 10000.00 |
| 22. | Dr. Giri, | 5000.00 |
| 23. | Chaitanya Cold storage, Guntur | 10000.00 |
| 24. | Dr. T C Reddy, | 10000.00 |
| 25. | Dr. Kama Prasad, | 5000.00 |
| 26. | Y Mallikarjuna Rao, | 5000.00 |
| 27. | | |
Source: www.pd.cpim.org/
Sunday, December 19, 2010
WEST BENGAL: LARGE RALLIES HELD ACROSS BENGAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT, AND IN CONDEMNATION OF TERROR AND ANARCHY - B PRASANT
THE past two weeks have witnessed massive gatherings of people from all strata of life and livelihood – the masses surged forward at the call of the Bengal CPI (M) and the Bengal Left Front – in support of democracy and development, and in condemnation of terror and anarchy.
More important than the seven-day stay-in programmes held at the very heart of Kolkata were the series of rallies held across the state. These rallies were local in nature but universal in exposing the ill-doings of the forces of right reaction banded together with left deviation, and calling for the rising curve of development to be maintained in an ambience of spreading democracy.
The Kolkata rallies, however, proved the cynosure of the eye of the popular movement in Bengal, addressed as they were by senior CPI(M) leaders like Biman Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, among others. As reported earlier, the week between 24 and 30 November witnessed different ‘days’ dedicated to the different facets of the people’s struggle in the state. The following days were observed amidst large popular presence and great deal of lively enthusiasm.
Demonstration programme in the metro centre of Kolkata over 24-30 November
24 November – workers’-employees’ day
25 November – women’s day
26 November – kisans’ day
27 November students’-youth day
28 November – cultural day
29 November teachers’-educational employees’ day
November - central rally with participation from the jangal mahal, north Bengal and the Sunderbans
Biman Basu addressed the Kolkata rally on the inaugural day as well on the day the programmes drew to a close. Biman Basu noted the violent assault on the lives and livelihoods of the masses at the behest of the ‘left’ terrorists and their allies in the right reactionary groups and outfits led by the Trinamul Congress.
The speaker drew parallel with the events of dismay and disaster on the 1970s when thousands of CPI(M) workers and supporters were made homeless, and a large number of them killed in the most brutal manner imaginable.
The recent events in south Bengal in particular have left no doubt that the opposition outfits, devoid of a popular base, were willing to resort to terror tactics and keep the masses in a veil of fear until the Assembly elections next year, in a malformed attempt to unseat the democratically-elected and popular Left Front government.
The poor suffered as the result of the depredations, Biman Basu pointed out and added to say that in recent times, in the jangal mahal alone, 212 Left Front workers have been killed. In the state as a whole, the same period saw 322 Left Front workers and supporters murdered. Not be left out, the Pradesh Congress has launched vicious attacks on the CPI(M) and LF workers in districts like Burdwan, Murshidabad, and Maldah.
The rallies held across the state would make the masses aware of the danger contained in the outfits of the right and the extreme left, and their lackeys in the corporate media. Biman Basu underscored that mass mobilisation would be the correct response to isolate the anti-people elements and smoothen further the way forward along development and democracy.
Addressing the central rally on the afternoon of 30 November, Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that it was the Left path alone that would enable Bengal to move forward towards a brighter future. The talk of change that the opposition outfits mouthed constantly was indicative of a change for the worse, and the people should beware.
Buddhadeb squarely held the Trinamul Congress and its cohorts responsible for the rapid array of murders being committed across the state. He also laid the blame of betrayal of the cyclone Aila affected victims of the Sunderbans by the central government on the opposition parties.
Buddhadeb pointed out also that the Trinamul Congress was not unwilling to strike deals with separatist groups in the north of the state. Ill-gotten attempts are made to divide the people across lines of region and language as well as caste in the north of the state at the behest of the Trinamul Congress who perhaps expect to reap political benefit out of all this.
The chief minister also spoke on the tie-up that the Trinamul Congress had with the ‘left’ terrorists, especially in the jangal mahal. The LF government has not banned the ‘left’ terrorists because the LF government did not believe in authoritarian methods. Taking ill advantage of democratic norms, the opposition outfits were not averse to plotting the wanton murder of poor kisans and of CPI (M) workers.
Buddhadeb pointed out that in the Gyaneswari express accident, those named as accused belonged principally to the committee headed by the now-incarcerated Chhatradhar Mahato with whom the Trinamul Congress was hand-in-glove. The Trinamul Congress had initially blamed the CPI(M) for the accident, and now since they have to eat their words, their way out is to maintain a stonewalling hush, and the silence is matched in the silence maintained on the issue in the corporate media.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee concluded by pointing out that to reinforce the anti-Left Front forces would be to strengthen anarchy, chaos, terror, and lack of development. It would also, and ominously, mean that the redistributive land reforms movement would be reversed in the rural stretches. The coming to office of the forces of reaction backed by the ‘left’ terrorists would also imply that the heard-earned rights of the toiling masses would be taken away and all facets of development stilled.
Among the rallies held in the districts, the one organised at Siliguri drew attention. It was a march of at least 50,000 people from every walk of society along the Hill Cart Road. The rallyists included a large number of women and people from the hill areas of the Darjeeling district.
Addressing the Kolkata rallies among others were Benoy Konar, Surjya Kanta Mishra, Madan Ghosh, Shyamal Chakraborty, Shyamali Gupta, Mohd Salim, as well as Ashok Ghosh (FB), Manju Kumar Majumdar (CPI), Subhas Naskar (RSP), Kironmoy Nanda (SP), Prabodh Sinha (DSP), Pratim Chatterjee (FB-M), Umesh Chaudhury (Biplabi Bangla Congress), and Mihir Byne (RCPI)
Courtesy: People’s Democracy
More important than the seven-day stay-in programmes held at the very heart of Kolkata were the series of rallies held across the state. These rallies were local in nature but universal in exposing the ill-doings of the forces of right reaction banded together with left deviation, and calling for the rising curve of development to be maintained in an ambience of spreading democracy.
The Kolkata rallies, however, proved the cynosure of the eye of the popular movement in Bengal, addressed as they were by senior CPI(M) leaders like Biman Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, among others. As reported earlier, the week between 24 and 30 November witnessed different ‘days’ dedicated to the different facets of the people’s struggle in the state. The following days were observed amidst large popular presence and great deal of lively enthusiasm.
Demonstration programme in the metro centre of Kolkata over 24-30 November
24 November – workers’-employees’ day
25 November – women’s day
26 November – kisans’ day
27 November students’-youth day
28 November – cultural day
29 November teachers’-educational employees’ day
November - central rally with participation from the jangal mahal, north Bengal and the Sunderbans
Biman Basu addressed the Kolkata rally on the inaugural day as well on the day the programmes drew to a close. Biman Basu noted the violent assault on the lives and livelihoods of the masses at the behest of the ‘left’ terrorists and their allies in the right reactionary groups and outfits led by the Trinamul Congress.
The speaker drew parallel with the events of dismay and disaster on the 1970s when thousands of CPI(M) workers and supporters were made homeless, and a large number of them killed in the most brutal manner imaginable.
The recent events in south Bengal in particular have left no doubt that the opposition outfits, devoid of a popular base, were willing to resort to terror tactics and keep the masses in a veil of fear until the Assembly elections next year, in a malformed attempt to unseat the democratically-elected and popular Left Front government.
The poor suffered as the result of the depredations, Biman Basu pointed out and added to say that in recent times, in the jangal mahal alone, 212 Left Front workers have been killed. In the state as a whole, the same period saw 322 Left Front workers and supporters murdered. Not be left out, the Pradesh Congress has launched vicious attacks on the CPI(M) and LF workers in districts like Burdwan, Murshidabad, and Maldah.
The rallies held across the state would make the masses aware of the danger contained in the outfits of the right and the extreme left, and their lackeys in the corporate media. Biman Basu underscored that mass mobilisation would be the correct response to isolate the anti-people elements and smoothen further the way forward along development and democracy.
Addressing the central rally on the afternoon of 30 November, Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that it was the Left path alone that would enable Bengal to move forward towards a brighter future. The talk of change that the opposition outfits mouthed constantly was indicative of a change for the worse, and the people should beware.
Buddhadeb squarely held the Trinamul Congress and its cohorts responsible for the rapid array of murders being committed across the state. He also laid the blame of betrayal of the cyclone Aila affected victims of the Sunderbans by the central government on the opposition parties.
Buddhadeb pointed out also that the Trinamul Congress was not unwilling to strike deals with separatist groups in the north of the state. Ill-gotten attempts are made to divide the people across lines of region and language as well as caste in the north of the state at the behest of the Trinamul Congress who perhaps expect to reap political benefit out of all this.
The chief minister also spoke on the tie-up that the Trinamul Congress had with the ‘left’ terrorists, especially in the jangal mahal. The LF government has not banned the ‘left’ terrorists because the LF government did not believe in authoritarian methods. Taking ill advantage of democratic norms, the opposition outfits were not averse to plotting the wanton murder of poor kisans and of CPI (M) workers.
Buddhadeb pointed out that in the Gyaneswari express accident, those named as accused belonged principally to the committee headed by the now-incarcerated Chhatradhar Mahato with whom the Trinamul Congress was hand-in-glove. The Trinamul Congress had initially blamed the CPI(M) for the accident, and now since they have to eat their words, their way out is to maintain a stonewalling hush, and the silence is matched in the silence maintained on the issue in the corporate media.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee concluded by pointing out that to reinforce the anti-Left Front forces would be to strengthen anarchy, chaos, terror, and lack of development. It would also, and ominously, mean that the redistributive land reforms movement would be reversed in the rural stretches. The coming to office of the forces of reaction backed by the ‘left’ terrorists would also imply that the heard-earned rights of the toiling masses would be taken away and all facets of development stilled.
Among the rallies held in the districts, the one organised at Siliguri drew attention. It was a march of at least 50,000 people from every walk of society along the Hill Cart Road. The rallyists included a large number of women and people from the hill areas of the Darjeeling district.
Addressing the Kolkata rallies among others were Benoy Konar, Surjya Kanta Mishra, Madan Ghosh, Shyamal Chakraborty, Shyamali Gupta, Mohd Salim, as well as Ashok Ghosh (FB), Manju Kumar Majumdar (CPI), Subhas Naskar (RSP), Kironmoy Nanda (SP), Prabodh Sinha (DSP), Pratim Chatterjee (FB-M), Umesh Chaudhury (Biplabi Bangla Congress), and Mihir Byne (RCPI)
Courtesy: People’s Democracy
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
ANDHRA PRADESH: ADIVASI YOUTH KILLED IN POLICE FIRING
THE Karnataka state committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has sharply condemned the killing of an adivasi youth in police firing. According to a statement issued by the party from Bangalore on October 23, it was the police firing in a forest in H D Kote taluk of Mysore district that took the life of Raju, an innocent adivasi youth.
On October 19, Raju and his friends, named Krishna, Rama and Bola, went to the nearby forest areas to collect honey as usual. However, without any provocation, the police fired at Raju and he succumbed to the injury. It is surprising that the police, instead of handing the body over to Raju’s family, had cremated it in the forest itself, which act is unpardonable. This is the way the Karnataka police under the BJP regime is treating the innocent people.
At the initiative of the CPI (M), the Forum for the Rights of Adivasi and Tribal People held a powerful protest demonstration before the taluk office in Heggada Devana Kote immediately after this dastardly murder.
Hundreds of tribal people participated in the protest along with Thimmaiah Penjalli and B M Shivanna, president and secretary respectively of the Forum for the Rights of Adivasi and Tribal People.
Addressing the largely attended protest demonstration, CPI (M) state committee member and Forum leader S Varalaxmi told the gathering that the BJP government is not allowing the poor tribal people to earn their livelihood. In fact, the BJP was hesitant to bring in a legislation, during the NDA rule, to protect the rights of the tribal people. It was due to the pressure of the Left parties that the earlier UPA government had to pass the Forest Right Act in 2006, which allows the tribals to collect forest products. In future also, we have to continue our fight against police high-handedness, she said.
The Forum demanded compensation of Rs 5 lakh to Raju’s family. It also demanded stringent action against the police officials who caused the unwarranted firing leading to the death of an innocent youth. (INN)
Source: www.pd.cpim.org
Vol. XXXIV, No. 44, October 31, 2010
On October 19, Raju and his friends, named Krishna, Rama and Bola, went to the nearby forest areas to collect honey as usual. However, without any provocation, the police fired at Raju and he succumbed to the injury. It is surprising that the police, instead of handing the body over to Raju’s family, had cremated it in the forest itself, which act is unpardonable. This is the way the Karnataka police under the BJP regime is treating the innocent people.
At the initiative of the CPI (M), the Forum for the Rights of Adivasi and Tribal People held a powerful protest demonstration before the taluk office in Heggada Devana Kote immediately after this dastardly murder.
Hundreds of tribal people participated in the protest along with Thimmaiah Penjalli and B M Shivanna, president and secretary respectively of the Forum for the Rights of Adivasi and Tribal People.
Addressing the largely attended protest demonstration, CPI (M) state committee member and Forum leader S Varalaxmi told the gathering that the BJP government is not allowing the poor tribal people to earn their livelihood. In fact, the BJP was hesitant to bring in a legislation, during the NDA rule, to protect the rights of the tribal people. It was due to the pressure of the Left parties that the earlier UPA government had to pass the Forest Right Act in 2006, which allows the tribals to collect forest products. In future also, we have to continue our fight against police high-handedness, she said.
The Forum demanded compensation of Rs 5 lakh to Raju’s family. It also demanded stringent action against the police officials who caused the unwarranted firing leading to the death of an innocent youth. (INN)
Source: www.pd.cpim.org
Vol. XXXIV, No. 44, October 31, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
'LAND REFORMS KEY TO REAL DEVELOPMENT' - Yechury Campaigns in Bihar
WITH the largest number of landless people in the country, the real development of Bihar can take place only with implementation of land reforms in the state, and to ensure this the people must chose Left parties candidates in the elections to the state assembly.
This was the appeal to the voters made by the CPI (M) Polit Bureau member and MP Sitaram Yechury on his first day of election campaign in Bihar on October 19, 2010. He addressed three election meetings in Dalsingh Sarai, Hasanpur and Patsa in Samastipur district. The CPI (M) candidates, Ramdev Verma from Vibhutipur, Ajay Singh from Ujiarpur and Raghuvansh Mukhiya from Hasanpur constituencies also participated in the respective meetings.
Yechury, in his speeches, asserted that it is only the Left parties that have shown commitment in fighting for implementation of land reforms in the state. He cited how the Left Front government of West Bengal distributed around 13 lakh acres of land to the landless poor, benefiting nearly 35 lakh families belonging to SCs, STs, minorities and other downtrodden sections. Such measures would result in real development, not the kind of those undertaken by Nitish Kumar which are benefiting only the rich and the corrupt. He compared these with the 'Shining India' policies of central governments which have resulted in the doubling of dollar billionaires in the country. He said the main question people must raise is as to who this so-called development is benefiting.
Yechury attacked Nitish Kumar for the company he is keeping i.e. the BJP and Shiv Sena which are part of NDA. He called upon the people to question their chief minister as to why his NDA partner, Shiv Sena, is carrying out vicious physical attacks against Biharis in Maharashtra. The Biharis are forced to migrate, leaving their homes and families to far off places in search of work because they do not find employment avenues in the state. And attacks on such people who are contributing so much to the development of those areas cannot be tolerated. But the CM in hunger of power is continuing in the company of NDA, he charged.
Yechury criticised the government for allowing large scale corruption in the PDS, MNREGA and other welfare schemes. He also attacked it for not providing relief to the Kosi flood affected people and asked as to what happened to the Rs 1,000 crore relief money that had come from the centre. He demanded scrapping of the division of the poor among BPL and APL and wanted universalisation of PDS. In this context, he reminded people about the cruel attitude of the Congress led UPA II government which allowed rotting of foodgrains in godowns but refused to implement Supreme Court order for its distribution among the poor.
Yechury pooh poohed the Congress election campaign in Bihar about ensuring development, asking what they did in the 40 years of power they had. He also criticised RJD of Laloo Yadav for not doing much for the benefit of the people of the state and focussing only on casteist politics.
CPI (M) MLC and veteran teachers movement leader, Vasudev Singh, also addressed the gatherings. Yechury will campaign for the coming three days also in Bihar in the districts of Motihari, Chhapra and Begusarai. He will address an election meeting jointly with CPI general secretary A B Bardhan in Begusarai on October 22.
CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat is scheduled to campaign in the state for two days on October 21 and 22 in Sitamarhi and Darbhanga districts. She had campaigned earlier on October 13 and 14 in Purnea and Kishenganj districts for the CPI (M) candidates. Party central secretariat member Hannan Mollah has also been campaigning in Begusarai, Supaul, Khagaria and Bhagalpur since October 18.
(N S Arjun from Dalsingh Sarai)
Courtesy: www.pd.cpim.org
Vol. XXXIV, No. 43, October 24, 2010
This was the appeal to the voters made by the CPI (M) Polit Bureau member and MP Sitaram Yechury on his first day of election campaign in Bihar on October 19, 2010. He addressed three election meetings in Dalsingh Sarai, Hasanpur and Patsa in Samastipur district. The CPI (M) candidates, Ramdev Verma from Vibhutipur, Ajay Singh from Ujiarpur and Raghuvansh Mukhiya from Hasanpur constituencies also participated in the respective meetings.
Yechury, in his speeches, asserted that it is only the Left parties that have shown commitment in fighting for implementation of land reforms in the state. He cited how the Left Front government of West Bengal distributed around 13 lakh acres of land to the landless poor, benefiting nearly 35 lakh families belonging to SCs, STs, minorities and other downtrodden sections. Such measures would result in real development, not the kind of those undertaken by Nitish Kumar which are benefiting only the rich and the corrupt. He compared these with the 'Shining India' policies of central governments which have resulted in the doubling of dollar billionaires in the country. He said the main question people must raise is as to who this so-called development is benefiting.
Yechury attacked Nitish Kumar for the company he is keeping i.e. the BJP and Shiv Sena which are part of NDA. He called upon the people to question their chief minister as to why his NDA partner, Shiv Sena, is carrying out vicious physical attacks against Biharis in Maharashtra. The Biharis are forced to migrate, leaving their homes and families to far off places in search of work because they do not find employment avenues in the state. And attacks on such people who are contributing so much to the development of those areas cannot be tolerated. But the CM in hunger of power is continuing in the company of NDA, he charged.
Yechury criticised the government for allowing large scale corruption in the PDS, MNREGA and other welfare schemes. He also attacked it for not providing relief to the Kosi flood affected people and asked as to what happened to the Rs 1,000 crore relief money that had come from the centre. He demanded scrapping of the division of the poor among BPL and APL and wanted universalisation of PDS. In this context, he reminded people about the cruel attitude of the Congress led UPA II government which allowed rotting of foodgrains in godowns but refused to implement Supreme Court order for its distribution among the poor.
Yechury pooh poohed the Congress election campaign in Bihar about ensuring development, asking what they did in the 40 years of power they had. He also criticised RJD of Laloo Yadav for not doing much for the benefit of the people of the state and focussing only on casteist politics.
CPI (M) MLC and veteran teachers movement leader, Vasudev Singh, also addressed the gatherings. Yechury will campaign for the coming three days also in Bihar in the districts of Motihari, Chhapra and Begusarai. He will address an election meeting jointly with CPI general secretary A B Bardhan in Begusarai on October 22.
CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat is scheduled to campaign in the state for two days on October 21 and 22 in Sitamarhi and Darbhanga districts. She had campaigned earlier on October 13 and 14 in Purnea and Kishenganj districts for the CPI (M) candidates. Party central secretariat member Hannan Mollah has also been campaigning in Begusarai, Supaul, Khagaria and Bhagalpur since October 18.
(N S Arjun from Dalsingh Sarai)
Courtesy: www.pd.cpim.org
Vol. XXXIV, No. 43, October 24, 2010
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