People's Democracy

B Prasant

RALLIES and conventions were held throughout the day and evening of December 6 to organise a rousing protest against the forces of communalism and religious fundamentalism.

In every district of the state, north and south, the Bengal Left Front organised a series of programmes to warn communal elements to stay far away from their anti-people initiatives and forays into violence.

Left mass organisations including the CITU and the Kisan Sabha, the SFI and the DYFI, and the AIDWA organised throughout the state on this day marches, rallies and conventions to further isolate the forces of communalism.

Addressing central LF rally in Kolkata, LF chairman Biman Basu said that in Bengal, the communal elements were dormant but that would not mean that these agents of death and disorder were gone from here.

There was always the BJP, and their cronies and patrons in Bengal, the Trinamul Congress, and they were always eager to take the first opportunity to run riot. Citing the political developments in Kerala, Biman Basu pointed out that here in Bengal, too, the Congress would not mind jumping with both feet in if called to do so by the communal combine.

Biman Basu concluded his address by defining as enemies of the people those elements that create or attempt to create, a rift among the masses for narrow, sectarian ends. These attempts are calculated to strengthen the hands of the ruling classes and must be resisted by the people, said Biman Basu.

Other leaders who addressed the rally that was held at the Rani Rashmoni Road crossing with the participation of close to fifteen thousand people on a chilly evening, were LF leaders Robin Deb (CPI-M), Prabir Deb (CPI), Moinuddin Shams (Forward Bloc), Pratim Chatterjee (Forward Bloc-Marxist) et al. (INN)