People's Democracy

CPI(M) Campaigns To Expose Congress-INPT Combine

THE CPI(M)’s Tripura state committee has fervently called for a statewide intensification of the ongoing ideological campaign to completely isolate the Congress-INPT combine that is out to use ferocious fascist methods. The call came following the November 15 meeting of the state committee.

At the beginning of its session, the state committee paid tributes to the memory of the party activists and supporters, as well as the jawans of security forces, who were martyred at the hands of separatist militants over the intervening two months since the last session of the committee.

In a brief review of the state’s pre-poll scenario, the committee noted with concern how the anti-people and unprincipled political-electoral alliance of the Congress and INPT is making planned efforts to step up murderous attacks on the Left Front leaders, activists and supporters as well as on the security forces. It will be noted that INPT is the political mask of the outlawed extremist outfit NLFT. These efforts aim at polluting the pre-poll atmosphere with terror and turbulence. At the same time, a heinous move is under way for a widow dressing of this out and out anti-democratic alliance, as was recently seen in an article written by Manisankar Aiyar, an AICC general secretary in charge of the organisation in Tripura. This is a desperate and devilish bid to whitewash the murky and abominable image of the Congress that already stands exposed before the peace-loving and democratic-minded people of Tripura.

On the other hand, the CPI(M) state committee noted with satisfaction the various manifestations of the intense anger, hatred and protest against the unholy alliance. There was massive participation of the people in the three mammoth rallies organised by the Tripura Upajati Ganamukti Parishad (GMP) on November 9 in three places of the state including Agartala, as well as in the marches and meetings organised by the Left Front and several mass organisations. Moreover, over the last two months, a number of listed hardcore extremists have either surrendered and returned to the mainstream or have been arrested by security forces.

It is in this background that the CPI(M) gave a call to step up the ongoing campaign to tear off the veil from the heinous Congress-INPT combine’s visage and expose its real character before the people. The state committee asked the party units at all levels to make an all-out effort to crown with a resounding success the next month’s rally programmes announced by the Tripura Schedule Caste Coordination Committee and Ganatantrik Nari Samity.

The state committee also asked the Left Front activists and supporters to take an initiative the state over to make use of the ongoing revision of electoral rolls for inclusion of the names of real voters and exclusion of the fake ones. The party also noted the Left Front’s request to the visiting Election Commission members to negotiate with the centre for return of the army units withdrawn from the state as also for reinforcing the para-military forces so as to ensure free and fair polls.

Finally, the party urged the state’s unemployed engineers, who are on a hunger strike to press for government jobs, as well as their guardians for withdrawal of this irrational agitation. It said the Left Front government is making ceaseless and serious efforts to make new appointments. The state is trying to overcome the tremendous hurdles the erstwhile Congress government and the present NDA government at the centre have created regarding recruitment by recklessly imposing the conditions of imperialist globalisation. The party urged the state’s unemployed engineers to make use of the Tripura Public Service Commission’s ongoing process for appointment of 628 posts of junior engineers in different departments of the state government. (INN)