50 Thousand Rally At Kultali Against SUCI Violence

B Prasant

ADDRESSING a big rally at Kultali in South 24 Parganas, state secretary of the CPI (M), Anil Biswas asked the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) to immediately cease its acts of violence and adopt democratic means of movement. There would be no compromise brooked in any manner with the perpetrators of criminal acts, warned the CPI (M) leader.

Attended by more than half-a-lakh of people of the area, the rally was held under the aegis of the district unit of the CPI (M) to register the people’s protest against the series of armed assaults that the SUCI had organised of late against the Party in the Kultali and surrounding area.

The Bengal Left Front government, said Anil Biswas, was engaged in working for the uplift of the poor in the state, and that it had to work in difficult circumstances.  An unrepentantly anti-people union government run by the BJP was always on the look out to embarrass the state government politically and financially. 

The opposition here in the state, said Biswas, comprising an opportunistic combination of the Trinamul Congress, the BJP, the Pradesh Congress, the SUCI, and the sundry Naxalite and separatist groups, were keen to organise armed assault on the workers of the CPI (M) as the Panchayat elections approached.

The CPI (M) and the Left Front, declared Anil Biswas, “shall work undeterred for the development of the state, and no force would be able to deviate us from our chosen path of pro-people, especially pro-poor initiatives.”

The SUCI, at whose hands more than 80 CPI (M) workers had been killed over the past several years, said Biswas, was losing its support base in the entire South 24 Parganas belt, and this had made them desperate.  Biswas exhorted upon the SUCI to quit violence and start a dialogue with the CPI (M) for the sake of peace and for the continuance of an accelerated pace of development of the area.

Veteran CPI (M) leader, Sibdas Bhattacharya presided over the rally.  Other speakers at the rally included district secretary of the CPI (M), Santimoy Bhattacharya, and the Sunderbans Development minister, Kanti Ganguly.