5 Crore Signatures for Food Security

The Left parties, the CPI(M), CPI, RSP & AIFB met in New Delhi on November 12, 2012 and have issued the following statement:

 

The Left parties have been conducting a campaign and movement for a universal public distribution system and for an effective food security law which assures all citizens access to food.

 

The campaign conducted from July to September 2012 has met with a good response from the people in all parts of the country.

 

In order to intensify the campaign and widen the movement, the Left parties decided to conduct a countrywide mass signature campaign.

 

The Left parties have given a call to collect five crore signatures. Members and activists of the Left parties will go house-to-house to collect signatures in the months of December 2012 and January 2013.

 

The demands on which the signatures will be collected and submitted to the government are:

 

• Set up a universal public distribution system without dividing the people into BPL and APL.
• 35 kgs of foodgrains should be supplied at not more than Rs. 2 per kg and this should be provided for in the Food Security law.
• No Cash transfer scheme in the public distribution system

 

 

Those who attended the meeting included, Prakash Karat, A.B. Bardhan, S. Sudhakar Reddy, Sitaram Yechury, Debabrata Biswas, S Ramachandran Pillai, D Raja and Abani Roy.

TMC Government Ruining Economy, Alleges Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

We must organize the huge unorganized labour force in the country; and CITU will accomplish this job in near future forming trade unions for the people of the large unorganized sectors, avowed Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, while addressing the massive gathering at the open session of 10th CITU State Conference at Howrah Stadium.

On Manmohan Singh Government

Explaining the current labour scenario of the country Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee sharply criticized Manmohan Singh Government for incessantly taking anti-people decisions that have severely affected the huge labour force of the country. ‘It is our country where unemployment, hunger, poverty pervade beyond all earlier records. So what Manmohan Singh is saying, the country is moving in opposite direction’. The Central Government is taking anti-people decisions that have increased retrenchment of workers throughout the country. Company owners are now yearning for more profit cutting the wage of the labourers hiring them from other places. This has to be condemned. So CITU has decided to organize the huge unorganized labour force to form trade unions for them, said Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

On Present Government in West Bengal

While talking about the present scenario of the state Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said that ‘West Bengal is witnessing severe crises in almost all sectors of life and profession in this new Government regime. Here the working forces including left workers are being badly intimidated and attacked almost everyday. Trade Union offices are being ransacked on a regular basis. They do not want any trade union activities other than theirs anti-workers culture. How long we will tolerate?’

‘Transport workers and the whole transport situation of the state are in deplorable condition. Most private transport vehicles are clogged down being incapable of managing the cost of the business. The Government is acting as sleeping beauty. Transport workers are not getting salaries, pensions, compelled to commit suicide. This is the crude reality of the state’.

‘In such a situation the new Government has already increased Ministers’ salaries from Rs. 7000 to Rs. 27000, when people are starving. We had never taken such unfair anti-people decision’.

The situation is rural Bengal is deteriorating considerably. Farmers are not getting legitimate price of food crops; the Government remains silent. Farmers’ suicide is a regular phenomenon in the state.

The industrial situation is, as people know, facing unprecedented crisis. Shalboni project, WIPRO and INFOSYS, companies the Left Front Government had invited to set up in the state earlier, are not in a position to continue. Just look at Singur. It has transformed into a deadly silent zone. The flagship NANO project could have organized more than 4000 jobs. The Government is therefore not in a position to encourage any further industrial investment.

In addition to such a mess in the overall professional sector, the Trinamool Congress has ousted ABG Company from Haldia just to provide undue benefit to a company owned by a TMC MP. This is just unprecedented. The Trinamool Congress people, led by MP Shuhendu Adhikari, even abducted three ABG officials. This is the actual situation, said Bhattacharjee.

In another situation in Dubrajpur, the TMC Minister was directly involved in an operation where the company was not giving proper compensation to the land holders. Police firing was occurred and the Minister now denying his involvement.

What is therefore the land policy of the present Government? How will they provide land if any industry comes in this state? What our present generation is going to do without employment opportunity? Engineering, Techno Institutions and Colleges are not filled up by adequate number of students.

The power sector is going to be the next debacle. They have stopped the Katwa power project for not being able to provide land. This will create a problem in future. We are getting power because there are severe shortage of industries and so the requirement of power.

On Law and Order Situation

Better is not to say much about this issue. A reign of terror including rape, killing, abduction, robbery is being unleashed in the state. Actually the miscreants have received a clear message from the Government that ‘nothing will happen’. The Government on the other hand is saying that nothing has happened. Only some are trying to malign the Government. So the situation is now getting out of control. The Government did not spare a poor farmer who was trying to tell about the ravaging hike of fertilizer price.

Our heart is down to see the series of attacks on Women in our state. Almost everyday such news hit front page of newspapers. This is just anarchy; and not to last long. Our people are conscious and they are the best judges of the present situation of the state.

On Towards Vigorous Struggle Call of CITU 10th West Bengal State Conference

The neo liberalism and its economic policy are making the life of the working class miserable day by day. The Central Government is giving all its effort to create the flexibility in the labour market in order to gain so called investors’ confidence. The working class of West Bengal is under continuous attack of the ruling Trinamool Congress. In this juncture the 10th West Bengal State Conference of Centre of Indian Trade Union (CITU) was held at Comrade Jyoti Basu Nagar (Howrah) and Comrade M. K. Pandhe Manch (Sarat Sadan). The Conference has been formally inaugurated by A. K. Padmanavan, all India President of CITU after hoisting the red flag and offering the floral tribute to the martyrs. In his inaugural speech Padmanavan said that the CITU would fight the attack on the people by the Central Government at the name of economic reforms jointly with other trade Unions. By mentioning about the attack against the workers in West Bengal in the changed political situation Padmanavan said that the workers of West Bengal shall be able to play its historical role in the situation like the earlier days. He said the Indian economic policy has undergone a right wing shift since the neo liberal economic policy has been introduced. Padmanavan has alerted the Central Government against any attempt to make the labour laws of the country flexible. He said the Government is acting under the dictation of the Word Bank and the chamber of commerce in order to make the labour laws of the country flexible. He said that the multinational companies are not following the laws of the land. They are restricting the workers to participate in the trade unions. Even the constitutional rights of the people are being undermined by the big corporate and MNC’s. The Central Government is playing the role of mere spectator in these violations. Padmanavan emphasised the necessity of protection of the trade union rights along with the social security, control of price hike and universal public distribution system. He said that CITU has always in favour of the united workers movement from its class outlook. After travelling a long path all the trade Unions have called for 48hours strike on 20th and 21st February 2013. This has happened for the first time in the history of independent India. The trade unions will participate in vigorous campaign like Parliament March on 20th December 2012 in order to make the strike successful.

Kali Ghosh, the Secretary of CITU West Bengal State Committee has placed the report in the conference. While placing the report he said that the workers movement of the state is facing various attacks during the tenure of the Trinamool Congress Government. He said that they went to submit their deputation before the Chief Minister of the State to draw her attention on growing attacks on trade Unions in West Bengal but she had refused to accept it.

On 10th November 2012 the CITU West Bengal State Conference has concluded with the call for a vigorous struggle against the neo liberal economic policies. Almost 1500 delegates from all over the state has participated in the Conference and discussed the various prevailing issues of the trade Union movement. Conference has created a road map for the future struggle for the working class people. In the context of growing number of unorganised sector workers and contractual workers the 10th Conference has emphasised on their problems and issues in detail and outlined the path of future programmes. Delegates have participated in the discussion on the draft report. With an elaborate discussion on the adverse effect of the economic policies of the Central Government the conference has also discussed the miserable conditions of the workers of the state in the last 18 months of TMC Government in the state.

The delegates have exchanged their experiences of the struggle against the terror and attack against the trade Union movements by the Trinamool backed hooligans. The expression of confidence has appeared on face of the delegates while talking about the historic success of the General Strike of 28th February called by the Trade Unions. The delegates have given importance on the consolidation of the various stream of worker movement in order to achieve the political goals.

The delegates in the conference have discussed the issue of the contractual labour in detail, specially the growing attack upon the labour laws of the country. The delegates have elaborately discussed the issue of the labour market flexibility and due to this effect of the neo liberal globalisation how the working class people of West Bengal are being affected at large. The organisation has decided to observe 12th December 2012 as the demand day for the Contractual workers. The workers shall unitedly hold their protest in front of the office s of the department of labour at the respective districts. The delegates have also pointed out the lathergy of the State Government to implement the social security and welfare programes initiated by the Left Front Government earlier.

On the other hand the CITU 10th West Bengal State Conference has discussed the issue of the unorganised sector workers. The roadmap has been framed to build up the vigorous campaign to unite the unorganised sector workers. The organisation will utilise all its effort to unite the workers working in various unorganised sectors in each districts of West Bengal.

The CITU will devote all its effort to make 48 hours strike a grand success. In the Month of December the Mass rally will be organised in all the districts and sub divisions of West Bengal and a huge and concentrated campaign shall be conducted among the workers and the common people throughout the month of December and January.

CITU will build up a joint struggle for drezing of Halidia and Kolkata Ports. The delegates of 10th West Bengal State Conference of CITU have discussed the issue elaborately and prioritized the labour issues in the ports. Tapan Sen, General Secretary of CITU said that the organisation consider the issues of the labour above all other issues. He also said that the organisation will stand with the retrenched workers who have lost their jobs at Haldia Port recently. He has demanded the joint effort of the Centre, State and the Port Authority to solve the existing problems.

The 10th Conference has elected the new West Bengal State Committee CITU. Shaymal Chakraborty has been re elected as the President and Dipak Dasgupta has been elected as the Secretary of CITU West Bengal State Committee.

Left Parties plans stir in Andhra Pradesh on power crisis

The State government is trying to suppress public voice by foisting false cases against them. The CPI(M) will not step back on agitations, more particularly regarding power crisis, even if cases are registered, party State secretary B.V. Raghavulu has said.

Com Raghavulu said his party was all set to launch an agitation against the power policies.

Meetings, dharna, etc. would be organised during this month and the agitation intensified in December. There was no question of backing out, he said. The “lopsided policies” of the government led to the power crisis in the State. None had asked for free power for agriculture. Farmers, who were dependent on borewells, would have been benefited if the irrigation projects in their areas were completed.

The government would also have saved Rs. 3,000 crore on power subsidy. But the government chose to spend Rs. 56,000 crore on Jalayagnam, which was a “waste of public money,” he said.

The Communist Party of India has warned of launching “militant struggle” if the government failed to bear the additional costs incurred by the power utilities instead of burdening consumers in the name of fuel surcharge adjustments.

The party’s struggle in association with other Left parties would be much intense than the one in 2000 that had resulted in police firing at Basheerbagh in the city killing three youth, CPI State secretary K. Narayana said on Sunday. “Basheerbagh will be repeated in all the 23 districts,” he added while accusing the government of targeting consumers for its own failures.

To begin with, the CPI would organise dharnas and demonstrations in the urban areas of the State on November 15 and it would also participate in the Electricity Regulatory Commission’s hearing slated on December 3 to consider fresh bout of FSA. “The APERC is behaving like an agent. It is being used to burden the people,” he said lamenting proposals for an additional Rs. 14,000 crore burden on consumers were being readied. Dr. Narayana who briefed reporters about the two-day State executive meeting here on Sunday claimed that the FSA charges were far exceeding the actual bills in several instances. “People will teach a fitting lesson to the Congress whenever elections are held.”

CPIM Khammam District Padayatra Concludes with a mass rally

A Huge public meeting was held in Khammam to mark the conclusion of the CPI (M)’s two-week long ‘Saagu Neeti Sadhana Rythu Maha Padayatra’ on Saturday. CPI (M) district leadership organised the 14-day Rythu Padayatra covering a distance of over 300 km in the district to espouse the cause of farmers. CPIM P B Member Com. Sitaram Yechury inaugurated the public meeting which was attended by Party central committee member T. Veerabhadram, district secretary P. Sudarshan and others.

If the scams involving loot of crores of rupees of public money was curbed, all the pending irrigation projects in the country could be completed and the surplus river waters tapped at an optimum level to boost agricultural growth, said Comrade Yechuri while inaugurating the rally.  “Dearth of funds” has become an oft-repeated phrase for the persons at the helm of affairs right from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Chief Minister N.Kiran Kumar Reddy when it comes to completing irrigation projects, he said slamming the Congress governments at the State and the Centre for offering lame excuses in fulfilling the developmental aspirations of the people. On one hand, the government was doling out subsidies worth crores of rupees for big multinationals and on the other was withdrawing subsidies to the poor people.

It is hell bent on imposing burden on common man in the name of fiscal deficit by resorting price hike at regular intervals, he charged. “The CWG, 2G, 3G, CG (Coal Gate) and Jijaji multi-crore scams plundered public wealth and resulted in unbearable burden on common man,” he said accusing both the Congress and the BJP of having resemblance in terms of pursuing detrimental economic policies and corruption practices. The need of the hour was to build public movements to fostering political alternative. Taking a dig at the Congress government in the State, he alleged that it lacked commitment to complete the Dummugudem (Rajiv Sagar) project for which the foundation was laid in 2005.

He lauded the

Stone laid for Makineni Basavapunnaiah Adhyayana Kendram

CPI (M) Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury laid foundation stone for the Makineni Basavapunnaiah Adhyayana Kendram at Vijayawada in Krishna District on Saturday. Addressing a gathering on the occassion he said the economic crises across the globe were toppling governments. What appeared to be a “corporate bankruptcy had led to sovereign bankruptcy”. Many governments, including Greece, Spain, Italy and US, were facing the brunt and India was no exception. The government, however, was ready to increase the prices of petrol and reduce subsidies, saying that hard decisions were the need of the hour. These initiatives would fuel inflation and push up unemployment. The purchasing power of the people would come down drastically, he said.

Governments of different countries allowed sub prime lending to boost purchasing power, and that led to collapse of Wall Street and banks (stage-II, 2008). In third stage the governments announced bail-out packages to the financial institutions. The governments to save their skins were axing the subsidies given to the poor. It impacted the purchasing power of people (leading to fifth stage). And now we are back to square one, and another economic crisis was imminent, he said. 

With the money embezzled in the 2G, and Coal Gate scams India could have easily implemented right to education, and provided 35 kg foodgrain to every family in the country for two years, he said. CPI(M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu, CPI(M) central committee member Paturi Ramaiah, Makineni Basvapunnaiah Memorial Trust chairman P. Madhu, and secretary Y. Venkateswara Rao were present. 

Referring to the adhyayana kendram, Com. B V Raghavulu said it will be a political centre for churning thoughts and exchanging views. The facility, which was expected to be complete before the centenary celebrations of Basavapunnaiah in 2014, would be thrown open for every one, except for those propagating militant ideas and communal hatred. The centre would have a library, a conference hall, a mini hall, and a dormitory for the convenience of public.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

Ludhiana Witnesses Successful Halla Bol Rally

AT the call of the Punjab CITU a massive Halla Bol rally was held at Ludhiana on November 4, in protest against the criminal delay in revising the minimum wages of industrial workers of Punjab. Over 10,000 industrial workers, brick kiln workers, MNREGA workers, forest, construction, transport and FCI workers, workers of private security agencies, Anganwadi workers and helpers, ASHA and mid-day meal workers took part in this rally.

They came from every corner of Ludhiana. Workers of bicycle and various other industries marched towards the venue of the rally in processions, carrying banners of their respective unions and CITU flags while shouting loud slogans. They were demanding revision of the minimum wages, abolition of contract labour system, implementation of the May 30 notification issued by the Labour Department of Punjab, and coverage of all scheme workers under the Minimum Wages Act.

Later the whole pandal too reverberated with slogans for long.

The rally was addressed by CITU general secretary Tapan Sen who made a scathing attack on the economic policies of the centre and its abject surrender before the indigenous capitalists and multinational corporations.

Local trade union leaders too lambasted the UPA government for slashing subsidies to the common people in the name of economic reforms while doling out subsidies, tax rebates and loan remission worth thousands of crores to the corporate sector. They also criticised the SAD-BJP government of Punjab for suppressing the workers’ rights and denying them minimum wages. They said a notification issued by the state government for the purpose in May 2012 was yet to be implemented.

Addressing the rally, state CITU general secretary Raghunath Singh said all the trade unions of Punjab are unanimously demanding Rs 10,000 as the minimum wage for unskilled workers, Rs 15,000 for semi-skilled workers, and Rs 20,000 for skilled workers, and Rs 350 per day for the daily rated unskilled workers. After several meetings and discussions in the Labour Advisory Board of Punjab, the principal labour secretary issued a notification on May 30, 2012, proposing Rs 5,200 for the unskilled, Rs 6,000 for semi-skilled, Rs 7,200 for skilled and Rs 8,700 for highly skilled workers per month, and Rs 200 per day for daily rated workers. The notification also made some other proposals such as an increase in the rate of DA from Rs 6 per point to Rs 9 per point, and promotion of unskilled workers to the level of the semi-skilled after a period of three years, of semi-skilled workers to the skilled category after four years of service and of skilled worker to the highly skilled category after five years. The notification also proposed to give an annual increment of Rs 50 to the unskilled, Rs 60 to the semi-skilled, Rs 80 to the skilled and Rs 100 to the highly skilled workers. But the notification, issued by the Labour Department of the state government, remains still on paper.

Announcing the next phase of action, Raghunath Singh said that to get the May 30 motification implemented in letter and spirit, the CITU would launch a Jatha March campaign from December 13 to 17 and block the road traffic for two hours on December 18, apart from continuing the present campaign of burning effigies of the Punjab government and holding rallies and demonstrations.

State CITU president Vijay Misra, who presided over the rally, asked the workers to endorse the action plan for future agitation. The workers endorsed it amid resounding slogans. Misra also announced that over 10,000 workers from Punjab would participate in the March to Parliament on December 20 to protest against the anti-people policies of the UPA government.

The rally was also addressed by state CITU vice presidents Chander Shekhar, Jatinder Pal Singh, Ranvir Virk and Ram Singh Sohian CITU, Sat Pal Bharti and Tarsem Jodhan (president and general secretary respectively of the Lal Jhanda Punjab Bhatha Mazdoor Union), Usha Rani (president) and Harjit Kaur (general secretary) of the Anganwari Mulajam Union, Mohinder Kumar, state CITU joint secretary Jagdish Chand, Fateh Chand and other office bearers of the CITU.

(Peoples Democracy)

People’s Democratic Right in Panchayat to be Restored: CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee

CPI(M) will fight for people’s right to run their own panchayats; this would be the prime agenda of the party in coming Panchayat Elections. The CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee Meeting has resolved that the party would participate in Panchayat Election with this agenda.

In a statement issued to the press the Party State Committee stated that the meeting widely discussed about the preparation for panchayat election. Party Polit Bureau member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee while expressing concern stated that the processing is on to curb down the people’s democratic power and right to run their panchayats, what the Left Front Government had ensured earlier in its regime. This would be menacing to the panchayati system in our state. The party would therefore fight for the people’s right in coming panchayat election. The ruling party is already trying to hold the election earlier before the scheduled time. Come what exertion of power may the party would combat the election resisting that. Also the poor working class women are to be organized to take part in this election.

Party State Secretary Biman Basu in his speech stated that the political significance of this panchayat election is to safeguard democracy and to reestablish the long tradition of left movement in the state. The political equivalence is also to be established in this election. Organizing poor people in vast rural areas would be the prime task to make a complete unified ‘Left Front’ before election.

Left Front would organize an open rally on 17th November in Kolkata against the series of attacks on women in the state. Basu averred that all sections of people are to be organized to combat attack on women. All Left mass organizations on a joint effort would transform this rally in a huge mass meeting.

The State Committee has also supported the all India General Strike on 20-21 February jointly called by all trade unions. The party would initiate all effort to succeed the strike, stated Biman Basu.

The meeting however discussed about the political situation in the districts and progress of the party organizations there. Biman Basu later stated that Party Committees have to be activated more. Functions of local and zonal committee members are to be properly evaluated to improve considerably.

The Party Secretary Prakash Karat elaborated the decisions taken by the Central Committee and recent political situation also. He stated that the Central Government is taking bold steps on behalf of both internal and foreign capital. Hike in petro-price, deregulating cooking gas, approval of FDI in retail sector, disinvesting profitable public sector industries, deregulating fertilizer price, de-subsidizing food are the anti-people steps taken by the Central Government. The scams and corruptions of Congress and BJP are being exposed in these days. Left parties have decided to launch movement against neo-liberalism.

CPI(M) Greets CPC on its Eighteenth Congress

The following is the text of the greetings sent by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on November 5, 2012 on the occasion of its 18th  Congress

Dear Comrades,

THE Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) extends its warm fraternal communist greetings to the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China. We hope that the deliberations of this Congress will further consolidate the process of socialist construction in China.

The 18th Congress of the CPC is taking place at a crucial juncture. The entire world is reeling under the affects of global economic crisis. Unemployment, poverty, inequalities and hunger are on the rise. What has started as corporate insolvency has now got converted into full fledged sovereign insolvency. Many countries in Euro zone are under severe duress. The very sustainability of European Union is now under question.

Imperialism is trying to come out of this crisis by transferring the burdens of the crisis on to the people of the third world countries. It is using all the means at its disposal – military, economic, political – to ensure that it retains its hegemony over the world. People in many of the countries, both the developed and developing, are coming out in protest against the increasing burdens on their livelihoods.

US has identified Asia-Pacific region as crucial to sustain its hegemony. As the recent documents of the US show, it is planning to deploy 60 per cent of its naval force in the Asia-Pacific region. NATO is expanding its influence to many regions of the world. The involvement of NATO forces in the war in Afghanistan, in Libya and now in Syria all point to the growing aggressiveness of imperialism to control the world natural resources. It is in such a complex international situation that the 18th Congress of the CPC is taking place.

The CPI(M) has been keenly following the developments taking place in China. It notes the impressive economic advances made by China. The measures adopted by the CPC for ensuring harmonious development of the Chinese society, reduce the income inequalities and fight corruption and other alien tendencies are watched with immense interest.

The 18th Congress of the CPC is being held at a crucial stage of China's endeavour in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round manner while facing the challenges of deepening reform and opening-up and accelerating the transformation of economic development pattern. The CPI(M) is confident that the deliberations of the 18th Congress of the CPC will facilitate the further growth and consolidation of socialism in China, upholding the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The CPI(M) is confident that the relations between the peoples of China and India will continue to improve and this, in turn, will contribute to bringing peace and stability in the region. The continuing close fraternal relations between the CPI(M) and the CPC, we are confident, will be further strengthened in the future, contributing to this process.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) once again wishes the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China all success and conveys its fraternal greetings to all delegates.

Revolutionary Tribute to Com. Samar Mukherjee in His Birth Centenary

He was born exactly 4 years back from the occurrence of the Great October Revolution in Russia in the year 1917. He has devoted his whole life for the cause of Socialist revolution in India, for the cause of the workers and peasants and the cause of the deprived people of the country as a whole. He has travelled 100 years of journey of his life after crossing the long path of revolutionary tradition and its legacy. Comrade Jyoti Basu described him as ‘The God’s Own man’ because of his perfection in all respect of life and work. He is none other than Comrade Samar Mukherjee, The Living History of the Communist and Left Movement in India. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) West Bengal State Committee has paid a revolutionary tribute to this living legend on the very special occasion of his birth centenary on 7th November 2012 at a program held in Dilkhusha Street Party Commune. Comrade Samar Mukherjee was born on 7th November 1913 participated actively in freedom struggle and became member of Pradesh Congress Committee during. Later being attracted to the Communist Ideologies he became a member of Communist Party in 1940. Since then he remained Polit Bureau member of the party, Chairman, Central Control Commission, party leader in the Parliament, and General Secretary CITU etc. He still remains an invitee member to the party Central Committee.


While conveying his message in the meeting Comrade Prakash Karat, The General Secretary of the Party has remembered those words of comrade Jyoti Basu about Comrade Samar Mukherjee. Comrade Prakash Karat said that he first met comrade Samar Mukherjee in the year 1971 when he used to work at Party’s Parliamentary office and Comrade A. K. Gopalan was the then leader of the party in Lok Sabha and Comrade Mukherjee was then deputy leader in Lok Sabha. Comrade Samar Mukherjee has created an example of sincerity and dedication throughout his political life. He joined India’s Struggle for Independence as a student and he became a member of the Communist Party in the year 1940. Since then his life is being dedicated to the Communist Movement of the Country. He played an important role to build up the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in the year 1964 and Centre for Indian Trade Unions.

By remembering one of his dedications towards the party comrade Karat said that Comrade Samar Mukherjee used to save his money for the party and he used to come to the party office and donate that money for the Party. He never used to spend money for his own cause. This is one of the examples of the revolutionary practices of Comrade Samar Mukherjee. Comrade Karat also recalled the role of comrade Mukherjee to protect the civil liberties at the time of emergency. His faith and conviction towards Marxism and Leninism remained the same after Soviet Union was dismantled. Comrade Karat wished Comrade Samar Mukherjee to spend many more years among his comrades to give them inspiration, courage and to give them opportunity to learn from his revolutionary path. Comrade Biman Basu, the Secretary of the Party’ recalled the journey of comrade Samar Mukherjee from a freedom fighter to a leader of the Communist Movement of India. He said that Comrade Samar Mukherjee was one of the architects of Refugee Movement in West Bengal and also the one of the makers of historical railway strike in the year 1974. Among the other the Forward Block Leader Comrade Ashoke Ghosh addressed the gathering. 7th November 2012 is a significant day not only in the history of the Communist Movement but for the Left movement as a whole.