Left Parties Dharna In Front Of Parliament House

MORE than one and a half thousand sitting and former representatives of the people staged a dharna in front of the Parliament House on August 25, at the call of the Left Front of West Bengal. The aim was to draw the country’s attention to the violent attacks against the Left Front cadre, offices and houses in the state, taking place with the backing of the TMC-Congress government of West Bengal. Later a 17-member Left Front delegation, accompanied by MPs from the state, met the prime minister and submitted to him a memorandum, apprising him of the threats to the democratic system in the state.

Later, Left front chairman Biman Basu addressed a press conference at AKG Bhawan, explaining that the Left Front has not been demanding any action under article 356 of the constitution, but only that the centre must not remain a mute spectator to the attacks. CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury was also present at the press conference.

Earlier, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat, CPI general secretary A B Bardhan, RSP leader Abani Roy and Forward Bloc leader Debabrata Biswas addressed the huge dharna.


On this occasion, CPI(M)’s Kerala state secretary, P Vijayan, handed over to Biman Basu a cheque of more than Rs 3.5 crore, as the “first instalment” of Kerala people’s support to the Bengal victims and their families.

Convention against violent attacks on the leaders, workers and supporters of Left Front by Trinamul Congress-Congress goons.

Chandigarh, 25th August’ 2011:CPI(M) demands an immediate end to violence unleashed against the party and Left Front in West Bengal by the Trinamul Congress and Congress combine especially in the aftermath of Assembly elections. A fervent voice was raised at a solidarity convention jointly organized here by the CPI(M) state units of Punjab and Haryana.

Speakers in the convention gave detailed account of the trail of repression perpetrated on leaders, activists and sympathizers of the party especially in the aftermath of Assembly elections. It was told that 31 comrades have been murdered, several injured seriously, hundreds rendered homeless, and women’s modesty outraged. Offices of party and mass fronts are ransacked and elected representatives are not allowed to function by coercion and intimidation. Haryana state Secretary Inderjit Singh described the situation in West Bengal as a threat to democracy which should be unequivocally condemned by all progressive forces as it would not remain confined in West Bengal and repeated elsewhere also.

Punjab CPI(M) state Secretary Charan Singh Virdi reminded that the systematic attack in West Bengal was actually aimed at finishing the Left Front in order to impose imperialist driven neo-liberal economic agenda by the ruling classes. He stated that the forces of right reaction will never succeed in their nefarious game. Raghunath Singh and Surinder Singh both CITU leaders exhorted the participants to mobilize funds for supporting the aggrieved families of the victims besides extending solidarity. Com. Lehmbar Singh Taggar and Com. Vijay Misra both Secretariat members, Punjab State Committee, CPI(M) also addressed the convention.

Later the workers marched to Raj Bhawan where memorandums addressed to the President of India were submitted through the state Governors seeking an end to the political vendetta against the Left Front in West Bengal and restoration of democratic rights THERE.

MADHYAPRADESH
A dharna held in state capital BHOPL. hundreds of left volunteers shouted slogans braving rains. Dharna was addressed by Badal Saroj, CPI(M), Roopsinh Chauhan (CPI) and BL Nalviy (RSP). left parties condemned violence against left in bengal and expressed solidarity with the people of Bengal and he left.

Till writing this dispatch news received at CPI(M) state office about dharna and demonstrations from Gwalior, Morena, Bhind, Guna, Indore, Shahdol, Balaghat, Jabalpur, Ratlam and several other places.