People's Democracy

Youth Rally Calls For BJP Govt’s Ouster

 B Prasant

A VERY well attended youth rally held at Rani Rashmoni Road in Kolkata on September 14 called for the ouster of the anti-people BJP government.  The Kolkata unit of the DYFI organised the rally, which was attended by thousands upon thousands of young men and women, so that the entire Esplanade area including the adjacent Jawaharlal Nehru Road was overflowing with the massive gathering.  The principal slogans of the rally were: “We want crores to be employed!” and “Out with the BJP government!”

The speakers, present and past leaders of the DYFI, said that the mask could be seen to have been stripped off the face of the BJP which had promised to provide a crore of employment to be created every year when it had first assumed office, and the assurance had been emblazoned across the BJP election manifesto.  While the pledge has not been kept, the policy of disinvestment that, the BJP régime later adopted with gusto, has resulted into the loss of jobs for more than seventy lakh people. And the number goes on increasing. 

The present allies of the BJP, noted the speakers, had earlier made raucous claims, post-election, about how the BJP ‘had undergone a change for the better.’  It is now obvious for all to see that nothing has changed except for the worse, and that this is becoming increasingly and multi-facedly evident for anyone to see as the next round of Lok Sabha elections approach.

The union cabinet considers the burning question of the fifteen crores of unemployed an issue of little relevance even as the ruling clique conspires to sell off the nation’s sovereignty by becoming a lackey of US imperialism.  The speakers were all of the opinion that unless the BJP government at the centre is ousted, the present dysfunction that the country faces would only become worse and worse as the days go by.

Addressing the rally (presided over by DYFI leader Ishita Das), among others, were past DYFI state secretary Manab Mukherjee, past DYFI all-India president Mohd Selim, DYFI state secretary Ashitanga Ganguly, state DYFI president Abdul Hai, and the secretary of the DYFI’s Kolkata unit DYFI, Pratim Ghosh.  (INN)