A seven day sit-in , involving different sections of people started on Wednesday, November 24, in Kolkata . This new phase of movement by Left Front will continue as uninterrupted protest campaign in Metro Chanel, Esplanade.
This movement has been launched when the neo-liberalized policy of Central government is curbing rights of life of common people day by day , UPA-II is ready to offer our country for the ‘service’ of US imperialism, Trinamool-Maoist alliance in the state is trying to challenge the democratic rights of the people of our state by bringing back their political-cultural heritage of anarchy and murder.
From 24th November to 30th November, each day will be observed as Workers Day, Peasants Day, Women Day, Student and Youth Day, Teacher and Non-Teaching Staff Day, Cultural Day etc. The campaign will end up by observing Uttarbanga-Jangalmahal-Sundarban day. In each day cultural programmes will be taking place in the stage.
The campaign inaugurated today in the presence of thousands of of -Workers. The meeting was presided by Biman Bose, Chairman, Left Front, West Bengal. In his speech he emphasized that, our state has been endangered aftermath of the 15th Lok Sabha Election, when Trinamool-Maoist alliance has murdered 322 lives of Left Front organizer-leadership in last one and half years and they are conspiring with all forces of anarchists to snatch away the democratic rights of the common people which has conserved in last three decades by Left front government. He appealed to all citizens of our state in the meeting to expose the actual content of all anti-left politics and to defend it with fullest strength of ideology of class struggle. In this meeting Ashok Ghosh, Chairman, Forward Bloc Bangla Committee, Monoj Bhattacharya, leader of RSP, Swapan Banerjee of CPI, Pratim Chatterjee of MFB, Rampada Samanta of DSP, Janmejay Ojha of SP, Subhash Roy of BBC also addressed the gathering.
The second half of the meeting was presided by Kali Ghosh, Secretary, CITU West Bengal State Committee. Shyamal Chakroborty condemned nuisances of Trinamool-Maoist alliance in the state and appealed to the people to fight for preserving rights of working class till end. The representatives of TUCC, AITUC, UTUC and other left oriented trade unions also addressed.
An exhibition of photographs will be going on in the campaign place featuring the casualty of lives made by the Trinamool-Maoist alliance in recent past days. The exhibition is inaugurated by veteran Left Front leader Ashok Ghosh.