Left Front will Spread Movement on Attack Against Women All Over The State: Biman Basu

The West Bengal Left Front Committee issued its absolute dissent over the rampant of anti-women crime in the State of West Bengal at Rashmani Road in Kolkata near Dharmatala. Thousands of protesters gathered today at Dharmatala to strengthen the call of the Left Front to protect women from growing social disasters that curb out social security and democratic space in West Bengal. The Left Front vowed its discontent over the passive and continual sponsorship of the State Government to the growing felony and criminalization against women. Rapes, physical harassments, incidents of abuse are getting surfaced in this state every now and then. The State Government is doing away with this towering criminalization with their hypothetical ‘created incident’ or ‘done by CPI(M)’ theories, which are not getting welcomed by common people. The West Bengal Government has created so much of ground level chaos through its autocratic attitude that the people of West Bengal are much angry than frustrated that they have no other way but to launch protest on the streets. On the 17th of November 2012 the state witnessed just one of a kind protest led by Left Front which was going to get followed by waves of protests voicing the rejection of TMC Government. The meeting was presided over by the Left Front Chairman Biman Basu; it was women of this state on the front-foot this afternoon.

Left Front Chairman Biman Basu while addressing the crowd pointed out that there are plenty of cases where TMC leaders are allegedly associated with such incidents. He also made it clear how the State Government’s responses with ‘created incident’ theory that either way deciphers their attitude towards criminalization against women. Sharply criticizing the role of state police Basu mentioned how the police have been acting indifferently or in some cases counter-productively to the victims of those brutal incidents. Innocent college girls are not even spared these days from the wild intensions of the offenders who are mostly TMC supporters, said Basu. He also mentioned that the State Government’s passive endorsement had caused the towering high on this sort of anti-women crime which we are tolerating every day. It is not only the subject of anti-women crime that the Chief Minister is endorsing, same way she is doing away with the disasters of police firing either at Loba Village, Birbhum or at Tehatta, Nadia. The way she is trying to cover up the incidents translates either to a direct endorsement of anarchy which may be in some way or other helping her or her party to do whatever she is targeting for, or on her gross incompetence to maintain social rest, law and order. It is the people of this state who are facing series of attacks, molestation and killing every day. Basu asked people of the state of West Bengal to unify and fight against the role of the Government. He then issued ultimatum to the State Government that this specific meeting is not the ending; it marks the start of continuous protest movements against their anti-people installations. 

The leader of opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra started addressing the huge gathering by expressing his concern over growing rate of crime against women throughout India. He discussed about the situation of Hariyana, Karnataka and Delhi regarding this issue. Then coming back to West Bengal he drew everyone’s attention by saying that the larger share of anti-women crimes are being committed in the rural areas of the state. So it was his understanding that protest movements must have to be organized in rural areas, village specific mobilization discarding those criminal tendencies against women is a must to do task for every leftist of the state. Speaking on the state sponsorship to the criminal offenders he said that if the people are aware of the attitude of the Government then they must translate their discontent in to massive protests. It is the misfortune of the people of West Bengal that Left Front Government is not in power; when women are attacked, molested, that means democracy is under attack. The draconian TMC Government has turned this state to an endangered state in just 19 months, said Mishra. He also said that it is the utmost priority of the leftists to stand beside the oppressed people; the duty of Left Front workers start with helping people out there. He thoroughly discussed the cases of the developed countries where women are playing key role, women are accounted for 2/3rd of net labour worldwide where they are consuming only a half of net production and wealth generated. If leftists are sworn to fight for the peasant’s rights and labour interests, if the leftists are foot soldiers of class struggle, Mishra mentioned that then fighting for the rights of women is no split phenomenon than that. All the issues of social disorder, capitalist oppression and the issues of caste division must be addressed uniquely but the protests must be united in order to deliver the gravest blow to the anti-people ruler to ensure the emancipation of the oppressed, said Mishra. CPI State Secretary Manjukumar Majumder, RSP leader Mihir Byne and Manoj Bhattacharya were among the left leaders, who spoke to the gathering regarding the issue of growing attack against women.