“This is a very important battle for us in Bengal, which will decide not only the state’s future but also restoration of democracy, law and order and rule of law”, he told a press conference ahead of the party’s plenum scheduled to start here on Sunday.
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Meanwhile the TMC leaders had dubbed CPI(M) as the most opportunist political party in India who were borne out by history when it tried to topple the Manmohan Singh government in 2008 and helped anti-Congress forces in 1989 against the Rajiv Gandhi government.
The grand rally to kick-start the party’s first Plenum since 1978 had one clear aim: to enthuse its workers before an all-important Assembly elections in West Bengal and arrest its decline in a State it ruled for 34 years. In her speech, politburo member Brinda Karat called the Trinamool government “corrupt, anti-poor that resorts to goonda-gardi”. This government has taken the state on the verge of destruction. We will not yield even a single inch to them.
Nearly all the speakers spoke about joining hands with forces which were opposed to the “communal BJP and the dictatorial TMC”. “When the whole country was protesting… people were returning their awards against the Dadri lynching and killing of children in Haryana… This is not the fight of the Left alone but the fight for Bengal… fight for the entire country”.
With the CPI-M giving a call of remove the Trinamool and save Bengal, he said the Marxists need to answer the people about the sorry state of affairs they plunged Bengal into during their regime. That is why our call is to remove BJP and save the country.
“This government is of the anti-social”.
“The condition of industrialisation is also very bleak. This can’t be allowed, so we call for ‘Trinamool hatao, Bengal bachao (Remove Trinamool, save Bengal)”, Bhattacharjee said, egging on the crowd to repeat his words. “This can not continue and we need to prepare for the electoral battle next year and win it too”, he exhorted the party cadre.
Left Front chairman Biman Bose accused the Trinamool of “attacking democracy”.
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“That (attracting the youth) will be discussed in the plenum”. But it has to be admitted that not only he but many top-level leaders of the present day CPI-M come from students’ politics which is prone to factionalism.
