People's Democracy

CPI(M) Calls For Intense Poll Campaign

 ON December 5, the CPI(M)’s Tripura state committee fervently called upon the Left Front activists and supporters to consolidate the increasing confidence of the people of Tripura in the Left Front and reinforce the political-organisational campaign for formation of a fifth Left Front government so as to press ahead with the ongoing process of peace and progress in the state. This call came following a two-day meeting of the state committee in Agartala.

Addressing the state committee meeting, CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Prakash Karat apprised it of the party’s review and evaluation of the current national and international scenario, with special emphasis on the party’s call for stepping up the publicity campaign against the BJP’s anti-national policies and communal politics. This was all the more necessary in view of the increasing activities of imperialist powers and of the communal forces in India. Karat wanted the party to vigorously campaign also against the dangerous anti-national alliance of the Congress party with the INPT, political mask of the imperialist-sponsored extremists. This, he felt, would help unmask the incorrigibly unprincipled character of the Congress.

The state committee made a brief review of the pre-poll scenario and of the implementation of various protest and publicity programmes in the period since its last session. It noted with satisfaction that, in the teeth of ferocious extremist attacks and the centre’s ruthless application of its policy of pro-imperialist globalisation, the process of peace and prosperity in Tripura has actively contributed to the multifarious development of the state and to the protection of democratic values. This performance has added to the esteem in which the Left Front is held by the people of Tripura, which is being reflected in the increasingly massive participation of people in the mass movements and propaganda campaigns called by the Left Front and its frontal organisations. As a result there is growing isolation and emasculation of extremists and their accomplices. Since the last session of the party state committee, 24 extremists have surrendered alongwith sophisticated arms, while security forces have nabbed 35 extremists alongwith 23 associates.

In vehement opposition to the perfidious and perilous alliance of the Congress with the INPT, there are almost daily defections of leaders, activists and supporters from the Congress ranks in several areas.

The CPI(M) has urged the people of Tripura to consolidate this statewide wave of the Left Front’s popularity and set up the political-organisational campaign for the formation of the fifth Left Front government so as to move ahead with the momentum towards peace and prosperity in the state. The party especially alerted the Left Front activists against any miscreants that might rear their heads to vitiate the pre-poll atmosphere.

The party once again reminded the centre of its responsibility in ensuring free and fair polls in Tripura. It reiterated its demand for deployment of adequate security forces including army in the state, in view of the centre’s own admission within and outside the parliament that CIA-ISI-sponsored separatist extremists have been carrying out atrocities in Tripura from across their sanctuaries in Bangladesh territory.

In the meantime, CPI(M) units observed Solidarity Day on the tenth anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition on December 6 or 7, as was called by the CPI(M) state committee, and also ensured success of a rally on December 14 organised by the Scheduled Caste Coordination Committee. Now they are mobilizing people for the Ganatantrik Nari Samity’s rally on December 29 and for statewide observance of Janashiksha Divas (People’s Education Day) on December 27. The CPI(M) has also asked its divisional committees to chalk out well-coordinated programmes for starting the election campaign by the month of December. (INN)