People's Democracy

Krishnagar Rally Calls For Ouster Of The BJP Govt

                                                                                                            B Prasant

A RALLY attended by more than one-and-a-half lakh of the rural people of the Nadia district on November 10 raised a cry for the immediate removal of the BJP-led NDA government from office.  The task, said the CPI (M) leadership addressing the rally, brooked no delay and there was no point in waiting for the next general elections. A strong movement needs to be launched across the country to build massive pressure on the BJP and its cohorts to quit office.  And Bengal must play a crucial role in strengthening the movement that would witness the ouster of the anti-people BJP régime from office.

In his address to the assemblage, Polit Bureau member of the CPI (M), Jyoti Basu said that the BJP leaders had not participated in the freedom struggle of the country.  “Was that the reason why,” asked Basu, “they would not hesitate for a moment before allowing the economic and political sovereignty of the nation to be jeopardised by the imperialists and their running mates?”

Not satisfied, said Basu, with opening the doors of the country’s economy to the marauding TNC’s the BJP government was manifestly willing and eager to compromise even the nation’s defence network at the behest of the US.  “The BJP rule,” said Jyoti Basu, “has seen the nation get widely impoverished even as communal strife has undergone a steep rise, Gujarat being the latest example of the barbarous ways of the religious fundamentalists, and the need of the hour is to drive it away from office as early as possible”

State secretary of the CPI (M), Anil Biswas in his address analysed the causes that led to the debacle of socialism in the USSR and said that the CPSU had become detached from the masses.  Just as one needs to enrich oneself from the glorious heritage of the November Revolution, so does one needs to draw the correct lessons from the causes that led to the debacle of socialism there.  Socialism, said Biswas, continued to be relevant despite attempts by the imperialists to vilify it.

The rally was presided over by the secretary of the Nadia unit of the CPI (M) Ashu Ghosh.  State secretariat member of the CPI (M), Mridul De, and Left Front ministers, Satya Sadhan Chakravarty and Nayan Sarkar were present on the dais.