People's Democracy

 SUCI Goons Shoot Down Teacher Inside School

 B Prasant

ARMED assailants swearing allegiance to the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) stormed inside the premises of the Dakhshin Arun Nagar junior high school at Joynagar, in the district of South 24 Parganas, on September 4 and shot down in a hail of bullets Comrade Subol Naskar, a teacher and a worker of the Kisan Sabha. 

Comrade Subol Naskar (50) has been a two-time pradhan of the Bamangatchi village panchayat.  He was immensely popular among the villagers and had been targeted by the SUCI for more than a decade. Noting that the ground was slipping from under their feet in a large part of the Joynagar-Majilpur area, once considered an SUCI stronghold, the latter party has of late started to resort to wanton violence to recover the lost ground.

The CPI(M) leadership has condemned Comrade Subol’s murder in the strongest of terms while iterating firmly that the CPI(M) did not believe in counter-violence. A successful 12-hour bandh was observed under the aegis of the CPI(M) in the area that falls under the Joynagar police station. Close to 30,000 people took part in the funeral procession that was taken out later on September 6 before Comrade Subol’s last remains were consigned to flames. (INN)