Left Front Demands Intervention of Election Commission to Ensure Fair Election in Howrah Lok Sabha Seat

Left Front has demanded Election Commission’s intervention to ensure fair and peaceful election in Howrah Lok Sabha by-election. The terror of Trinamool Congress hooligans is increasing day by day as election is coming closer. Left Front in such a situation has therefore demanded immediate intervention of the Election Commission to conduct fair election, said Left Front Chairman and CPI(M) State Secretary Biman Basu. CPI(M) leader Rabin Deb has called on Chief Election Officer Sunil Kumar Gupta to place the same demand.
On last Monday in Bally immediate after the meeting of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Trinamool hooligans started assaulting CPI(M) workers and leaders. Local CPI(M) leader Pradip Ganguly and his daughter Anubhuti Ganguly have been assaulted by the TMC goons. Biman Basu while addressing the press on Tuesday said that ‘a section of Police administration is supporting and promoting these miscreants. We overtly condemn this brutal act and demand immediate arrest of these hooligans’. Along with Bally a vast region of Howrah Lok Sabha constituency including Howrah North, Howrah South, Sankrail, Shibpur, Panchla etc. are under TMC attack. The TMC hooligans are intimidating voters and intercepting Left workers to organize smooth campaign, complained Biman Basu. ‘We hope Election Commission would initiate necessary action without any delay’, said Biman Basu.
CPI(M) leader Rabin Deb met Chief Election Officer Sunil Kumar Gupta and categorically placed the misdeeds of Trinamool leader including the Chief Minister. Rabin Deb said that the Chief Minister has violated the model code of conduct by putting up fresh promises to the voters of Howrah Lok Sabha. The Left Front candidate Sreedip Bhattacharya has submitted allegations to the observer and Police Commissioner about the TMC terror in Howrah.
Rabin Deb alleged that the Chief Minister has violated 6(c) of the Article 7 of the model code of conduct of the Election Commission where it is clearly written that after the announcement of election no new project, essential public service project, and promise would not be announced or inaugurated. But the Chief Minister has already done it. She also intimidated CPI(M) overtly in a meeting. The Government has already advertisements that includes Howrah Improvement Trust ad, salary hike of Panchayat workers etc.

DYFI 4th All India Women's Convention held in Mumbai

The Democratic Youth Federation of India held its 4th All India Young Women’s Convention in Mumbai on 25th and 26th of May. Apart from Central Executive Committee members of the organisation, 94 delegates from various states assembled for the convention at Lakshmi Sehgal Nagar (Aarsh Vidyalaya Campus, Chembur). 

The convention began with DYFI national president M B Rajesh hoisting the flag at the convention venue on 25th morning. Renowed economist Prof. Utsa Patnaik inaugurated the convention. In her inaugural address Prof.Utsa reminded the youth movement that a comprehensive fight against atrocities on women inseparable from the fight against neo-liberal economic regime which is causing immense distress and gunger in our country. The advent of neo-liberal economic policies has pulled back hunger and malnutrition levels to those of colonial times. Women are the worst sufferes of this. Instead of reversing the policies which are causing misery to the people, the ruling establishment is displaying pathetic intellctual dishonesty in claiming that hunger and poverty levels are coming down. She explained the ridiculous nature of poverty line announced by officialdom. Acute poverty is compounded by rising unemployment of which women are the worst affected. Employment opportunities for women are becoming nearly absent in rural India. She drew attention to the structural changes taking place in the workforce of the nation as a result of neo-liberal economics. Decline of organised labour has meant weakening of the social agency that stood for an alternate ‘moral universe’ opposed to capitalism’s culture of objectifying women. This along with ‘lumpenisation’ not only of sections of working class but also of fractions of bourgeosie haver connection to the growing level of atrocities against women.
 

Eminent social activist Teest Setalvad also spoke at the seeion which was chaired by MB Rajesh. CITU leader K L Bajaj and CPI(M) state secretary Ashok Dhawale were also present.

Several eminent women activists, writers and TU leaders like Teesta Setalwad, Sandhya Nare Pawar, Tapati Mukhopadhyaya, Madhu Paranjape, Armaity Irani, Shubha Shamim, Sonya Gill and Mariam Dhawale were felicitated at the inaugural session.