The Left Front took out an impressive protest march before organizing a meeting in Azad Hind Bag in north Kolkata on June 25. The protest was against widespread Trinamool attacks on Left party leaders, workers and even supporters in West Bengal immediately after the declaration of poll results, price rise particularly the rise in prices of diesel and ,LPG cooking gas.
The march started from Rani Rashmoni Road in Esplanade area where Left Front leaders including Front chairman Biman Basu and Leader of the Opposition Surya Kanta Mishra were frontliners in the 8-kilometre march along Esplanade East, Lenin Sarani, College Street and Bidhan Sarani. The former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was present at Rani Rashmoni Road.Braving the afternoon rain a large number of Left supporting people assembled at Rashmoni Road. The participation of students and youths was particularly impressive.The Front chairman Biman Basu reminded the marchers of Emergency during the days of Indira Gandhi 33 years ago when ruthless attacks were mounted on the people to take away their democratic rights. Now again after the span of Emergency period a situation had been created by Trinamool-Congress combine by resorting to indiscriminate attacks on Left supporting masses across rural Bengal, he alleged.
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