Addressing a massive rally organized by the Left Front on Rani Rashmoni Road in Kolkata on August 12, Front leaders condemned the way the ruling Trinamool Congress had thrown West Bengal into complete unrest and anarchy. Personal liberty of people, they alleged, was being violated and democratic rights of political parties and trade unions were being infringed upon.
Braving the rains and drizzles thousands of Left Front supporters coming from all the districts converged on the Esplanade area to voice their protest against the post-poll violence unleashed by the Trinamool activists on the Left supporting people. The rally was addressed among others Left Front chairman Biman Basu, former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee, Leader of the Opposition Suryakanta Mishra, CPI leader Manju Kumar Majumdar and RSP leader Manoj Bhattacherjee. Later, an eleven-member delegation headed by the Leader of the Opposition met the West Bengal Governor M k Narayanan to submit a memorandum giving the details of incidents related to atrocities committed the Trinamool Congress following the declaration of the Assembly elections results in West Bengal.Front chairman Biman Basu said the State was in complete unrest. The newly elected Trinamool government was totally indifferent to systematic as well as organized attacks on Left Front supporters who included poor farmers, students and teachers. All democratic institutions right from panchayats, municipalities, cooperatives, different elected bodies of educational institutions had been made defunct either by attacks and intimidations. In many areas teachers, non-teaching staff and students were not being allowed to enter their institutions.Basu, also secretary of the West Bengal CPI(M), alleged that the Jangalmahal was now made sanctuary for the Maoists. There had been mounting tension in the Hills and Terai and Dooars region in North Bengal. Basic democratic rights of all sections of the people of the State were under threat. Even armed conflicts among different factions of Trinamool Congress were taking place. Every day CPI(M) workers and supporters in rural Bengal was being killed by trigger-happy Trinamool gangsters, Basu alleged.Former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee alleged after the Trinamool and Congress alliance had come to power, regular instance of political vendetta, murder, loot, rioting and bloodbath were being witnessed everywhere across rural Bengal. Innocent people were being implicated in false cases and arrested.Her termed the arrest of CPI(M) MLA and former Minister Sushanta Ghosh in a murder case as “political revenge” by Trinamool Congress after coming to power in the State. He alleged the government had been digging up 10 to 30 year old cases just to take revenge against the CPI(M). “ When I was the Chief Minister the Trinamool Congress vandalized the Assembly, attacked policestations and slapped police officer on duty, but I did not take any action against those who indulged in such activities,” he said.The memorandum seeking Governor’s intervention has given details of victims of Trinamool atrocities since the installation of the new government headed by Mamata Banerjee. It revealed that 30 Left Front leaders and workers (CPI(M) 28 and RSP) were killed and seven more were abetted to commit suicide ; 684 women were physically assaulted (508 molested and 23 raped) ; 3785 persons had to be hospitalized for treatment after sustaining severe injuries. There had been 2064 instances of arson and looting of houses and 14081 persons were evicted from their places of living. To buy peace and stay in their homes, people had been forced to pay money to the local Trinamool activists and leaders. An estimated amount of money paid to them was more than 277.7 nillion. Around 758 party, trade uion and other mass organization offices were either attacked, ransacked and,burnt. Altogether 77 student union offices had been captured. There had been a widespread attack on the rights of peasantry where by 3418 ryots were denied the right to cultivate their own lands amounting 9222.73 acres. Besides 26838 Patta holders and share-croppers had been forcibly evicted from 9222.02 acres of patta and barga lands. Even the Left Party organs have not seen spared. 241 boards displaying Ganashakti daily in public had been beaten dismantled and thousands of its copies had been burnt and the hawkers beaten up in order to disrupt it’s circulation chain.
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