People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 01
January 05, 2003
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVII No. 01 January 05, 2003 |
B
Prasant
ARMED
Maoist
ultras
owing
allegiance
to
the
Maoist
Communist
Centre-affiliated
Biplabi
Krishak
Samity,
hacked
to
death
DYFI
worker,
Comrade
Laxmi
Bag,
deep
into
the
night
of
December
31
at
Bhimpur
in
the
district
of
Hooghly,
some
50
km
from
Kolkata.
State
secretary
of
the
CPI(M),
Anil
Biswas
has
condemned
the
incident.
The
Jangipara
zonal
committee
of
the
CPI(M)
has
observed
a
12-hour
bandh
in
Bhimpur
locality
to
protest
against
the
heinous
killing.
The
state
unit
of
the
DYFI
has
decided
upon
organising
a
protest
day
all
over
the
district
of
Hooghly
on
January
2.
As
we
file
this
report
news
comes
that
the
police
has
been
able
to
apprehend
five
of
the
suspected
killers,
at
least
two
of
who
are
notorious
history-sheeters
and
are
associated
with
the
Maoist
Communist
Centre.
Comrade
Laxmi
Bag
was
assaulted
while
he
was
asleep
in
his
makeshift
shanty
at
the
edge
of
the
Furfura
gram
panchayat
area.
The
miscreants
tore
open
the
roof
of
the
hutment
and
descended
on
a
sleeping
Comrade
Bag
and
proceeded
to
hack
him
to
death
with
sharp
weapons.
They
also
repeatedly
stabbed
him
and
then
slit
his
throat.
In
a
macabre
act,
the
killers
then
proceeded
to
plaster
Comrade
Bag’s
bleeding
remains
with
posters,
printed
under
the
by-line
of
the
Biplabi
Krishak
Samity
that
proclaimed
him
as
a
“fascist
leader”
and
said
that
the
assassination
was
an
“act
of
justice.”
The
ultras
while
fleeing
the
scene
also
left
hundreds
of
leaflets
strewn
around
the
area
wherein
it
was
stated
that
such
acts
would
be
“continued
with
impunity”
and
named
several
CPI(M)
leaders
of
the
area
as
on
the
“hit
list.’
Speaking
to
INN/PD
at
the
Muzaffar
Ahmad
Bhavan
in
Kolkata,
Anil
Biswas
said
that
the
murder
was
yet
another
fatuous
attempt
by
the
anti-Left
combination
of
the
various
reactionary
forces,
including
the
Trinamul
Congress,
the
Pradesh
Congress,
and
the
BJP,
to
destabilise
the
rural
scene
in
the
run
up
to
the
panchayat
elections
scheduled
in
2003.
“These
forces,”
said
the
CPI(M)
leader,
“inevitably
target
the
workers
and
leaders
of
the
CPI(M)
and
of
the
Left
front.”
Anil
Biswas
called
upon
the
people
from
every
walk
of
life
to
remain
cautious
as
the
panchayat
polls
approached.
He
called
for
a
speedy
apprehension
of
the
culprits
and
exhorted
upon
the
people
of
the
Bhimpur
area
to
maintain
a
peace.
A
visit
to
the
Bhimpur
locality
revealed
that
the
Biplabi
Krishak
Samity
was
a
motley
outfit
run
by
sundry
Naxalite
elements
that
shamelessly
backed
the
rich
farmers
(or
jotdars)
in
the
movement
that
the
Kisan
Sabha
could
build
up
over
the
years
in
the
Hooghly
district
on
the
issue
of
increasing
the
lowly
wage
of
the
khet
mazdoors.
The
Biplabi
Krishak
Samity,
residents
of
the
villages
of
Bhimpur
told
INN/PD,
had
repeatedly
organised
armed
assaults
on
Kisan
Sabha
activists
over
the
latter’s
leading
role
in
organising
the
khet
mazdoors
and
the
poor
kisans.
In
the
summer
of
2002,
the
Kisan
Sabha
had
launched
a
big
struggle
against
the
Trinamul-BJP-Pradesh
Congress-backed
jotdars
of
the
area
over
wages
of
agricultural
labourers
and
challenging
the
right
of
the
jotdars
to
harvest
crops
unilaterally.
In
that
struggle,
the
Kisan
Sabha
emerged
victorious
and
the
jotdars
were
forced
to
shell
out
a
daily
wage
of
Rs
24
plus
2
kg
worth
of
rice.
From
that
moment
onward,
the
jotdars
started
to
recruit
the
armed
backing,
first
covert
and
then
overt,
of
the
Biplabi
Krishak
Samity,
who
swore
allegiance
to
the
Maoist
Communist
Centre.
The
local
leadership
of
the
CPI(M)
believe
that
the
there
is
an
active
involvement
of
the
People’s
War
Group,
too,
in
organising
armed
intervention
in
support
of
the
rich
farmers
of
the
area.
The
MCC-PWG
goons
at
the
behest
of
the
jotdars,
targeted
Comrade
Laxmi
Bag
since
that
point
of
time
because
of
the
stellar
role
that
Comrade
Bag
had
emoted
in
leading
the
struggle
of
the
poor
kisans
and
the
khet
mazdoors.
