CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Surja
Kanta Mishra addressing a huge rally at Raina, Burdwan said that the
farthest extent of terror unleashed by the ruling party would inevitably
fall short in the continuous struggle of social transformation and the
victory of the common people. He supplemented that even those who issued
massive attacks on the people on their way to join the rally won’t be
able to change the inexorable victory of people, the forces at war with
democracy are destined to face defeat in the struggle of social
transformation. This is the first CPI (M) rally at the south Damodar
region in the last 18 months as the new ruling order had banned any
opposition forces to undergo any sort of political or democratic
activity.
Surja Kanta Mishra said that the malicious forces are now outperforming in this state, because of that its not only Raina or Burdwan, even the elected MLA’s are not safe in the assembly house, and it is the whole state under attack. The elected representatives of Raina were not allowed to interact with the people due to the extent of terror installed by the ruling party said the leader. He further said that the Honbl Speaker of the Assembly is never ready to permit any adjourning proposal raised by the opposition, be it the case of Cheat-Funds or else, opposition MLAs like Gouranga Chatterji and Devlina Hembram are getting attacked inside the highest house of law making in the state, the Assembly house. He also said that even TMC’s veteran leader and MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had got assaulted by TMC supporters. He emphasized that when a leader of the ruling party is not anymore secured in this state then the supporter and workers of the opposition party will definitely be under threat and so is it. He said that the ruling party is an organization of no principle at all, the ‘rainbow’ alliance they had created to make the progressive forces face defeat is already a lost saga. The TMC supremo had done away with her allied forces in the first 18 months only, now she is on to ransacking her own party, but the unfortunate truth is that it is the state which is getting bound to face the tale of distress every now and then. The ruling party is accounted for clashes in themselves on daily basis, collecting of extortion money is one of the routine job of the workers of the ruling party said Mishra. The leader of the opposition in the state assembly Surja Kanta Mishra have asked that how many times a Kolkata bound farmer from Burdwan intending to sale his crops has to pay extortion money to the ruling party workers. He said that with the situation in which the government is not buying any harvest directly from the peasant and with a upper limit of selling 30 bags of harvest only they are getting entitled with a token which is yet to be paid in real money and the peasant having sold his harvest has no other way but to wait further to get paid by the government of ‘change’ or to commit suicide; as the hardest of truth is that 59 distressed peasants had committed suicide in the Burdwan district only in last 18 months. He asked everyone in the gathering to point out such an incident in the 34 years regime of the Left Front governments. Now with the TMC government in action, the workers, the peasants and everyone else in this state are not living in prosperity, like the British Empire; the whole state is forced to enter into an age of anarchy, with the situation aroused in this state it is the responsibility of the leftist and progressive forces to observe harmony said the leader. He spoke about the incidents recently occurring in various schools of the state, there are people who are following the tradition of self-certification started by the CM, and now students are annoyed to the fact that teachers will be evaluating their progress. Taking on the point of promised ‘flood’ of industrialization the leader of the opposition asked whether there is any real investment done in the industrial sector and he confidently stated that the CM knows the art of destruction only and her regime would end being one of its kind in the history of parliamentary democracy. Then he called upon the progressive people that they have to win the confidence of 95 percent of common and working people, even if there is a part of working people who are in support with the anarchist ruling party; it is their responsibility to forward support even to those people too.
Tens of thousands of people gathered at Raina to make the rally a huge one in spite of being repeatedly threatened and attacked. The number of people who were hindered to join this rally was even larger. More over there was forced power cuts in some places to make people unable to watch the telecast of the Raina rally. Along with Surja Kanta Mishra, the CPI (M) Burdwan District committee secretary Amal Halder and Abdur Rejjak Mondal, the leader of district AIKS and prominent district leadership was present in this rally. At the end of the day from Raina, it was all popular rejection to the age of anarchy in this state.
Surja Kanta Mishra said that the malicious forces are now outperforming in this state, because of that its not only Raina or Burdwan, even the elected MLA’s are not safe in the assembly house, and it is the whole state under attack. The elected representatives of Raina were not allowed to interact with the people due to the extent of terror installed by the ruling party said the leader. He further said that the Honbl Speaker of the Assembly is never ready to permit any adjourning proposal raised by the opposition, be it the case of Cheat-Funds or else, opposition MLAs like Gouranga Chatterji and Devlina Hembram are getting attacked inside the highest house of law making in the state, the Assembly house. He also said that even TMC’s veteran leader and MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had got assaulted by TMC supporters. He emphasized that when a leader of the ruling party is not anymore secured in this state then the supporter and workers of the opposition party will definitely be under threat and so is it. He said that the ruling party is an organization of no principle at all, the ‘rainbow’ alliance they had created to make the progressive forces face defeat is already a lost saga. The TMC supremo had done away with her allied forces in the first 18 months only, now she is on to ransacking her own party, but the unfortunate truth is that it is the state which is getting bound to face the tale of distress every now and then. The ruling party is accounted for clashes in themselves on daily basis, collecting of extortion money is one of the routine job of the workers of the ruling party said Mishra. The leader of the opposition in the state assembly Surja Kanta Mishra have asked that how many times a Kolkata bound farmer from Burdwan intending to sale his crops has to pay extortion money to the ruling party workers. He said that with the situation in which the government is not buying any harvest directly from the peasant and with a upper limit of selling 30 bags of harvest only they are getting entitled with a token which is yet to be paid in real money and the peasant having sold his harvest has no other way but to wait further to get paid by the government of ‘change’ or to commit suicide; as the hardest of truth is that 59 distressed peasants had committed suicide in the Burdwan district only in last 18 months. He asked everyone in the gathering to point out such an incident in the 34 years regime of the Left Front governments. Now with the TMC government in action, the workers, the peasants and everyone else in this state are not living in prosperity, like the British Empire; the whole state is forced to enter into an age of anarchy, with the situation aroused in this state it is the responsibility of the leftist and progressive forces to observe harmony said the leader. He spoke about the incidents recently occurring in various schools of the state, there are people who are following the tradition of self-certification started by the CM, and now students are annoyed to the fact that teachers will be evaluating their progress. Taking on the point of promised ‘flood’ of industrialization the leader of the opposition asked whether there is any real investment done in the industrial sector and he confidently stated that the CM knows the art of destruction only and her regime would end being one of its kind in the history of parliamentary democracy. Then he called upon the progressive people that they have to win the confidence of 95 percent of common and working people, even if there is a part of working people who are in support with the anarchist ruling party; it is their responsibility to forward support even to those people too.
Tens of thousands of people gathered at Raina to make the rally a huge one in spite of being repeatedly threatened and attacked. The number of people who were hindered to join this rally was even larger. More over there was forced power cuts in some places to make people unable to watch the telecast of the Raina rally. Along with Surja Kanta Mishra, the CPI (M) Burdwan District committee secretary Amal Halder and Abdur Rejjak Mondal, the leader of district AIKS and prominent district leadership was present in this rally. At the end of the day from Raina, it was all popular rejection to the age of anarchy in this state.
