People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
02
January 10, 2010
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Vol. XXXIV
No.
02 January 10, 2010 |
B Prasant
THE Ganashakti
was set up as an �eveninger� way back in 1967, on 3 January. The occasion is utilised by the
There he explained in detail the
present situation
prevailing in
The opposition as the speaker
pointed out were out to frustrate
the democratic process, taking free recourse to violence.
They are also
on to create as insurmountable as possible obstacles on the path
of
development and growth, in every social and economic sector. The poor people are attacked and attempts
essayed to create a rift and a cleavage in their ranks.
Forces of casteism and communalism are put to
�proper� use in the unholy drive.
Everyday one notes the dastardly
murder of CPI (M)
workers as well as of poor kisans, daily wage earners, and even of
teachers and
headmasters. A lie campaign is indulged
in with ferocity against the communists.
The media is a willing mouthpiece, the bourgeois media that is. The democratic rights of the people are under
severe strain. The largest section of
poor people being butchered especially in the red clay zones belong to
the SC
and STs.
Some of the attempts by the
bourgeois media and of the
bourgeois opposition, tagged along by left sectarians, has no limits to
the
lies being fulminated aplenty. It is
even being touted in the big media that the Left Front government is
disturbingly eager to take over land parcels owned by the minority
communities.
The 11 lakh acres of land
distributed by the state
government as a part of its redistributive land reforms that have won
laurels
here and abroad, 70 per cent has gone to the minority communities, SC,
and ST
poor. 1.5 lakh acres of khas land remain
in limbo because of court cases and thus, the parcels cannot be
redistributed
despite all the goodwill of the state LF government and the LF. Would the bourgeois media take note before
launching on yet another self-righteous attack on the CPI (M)?
The opposition has put a series
of obstacles on the path
of development-oriented, employment generating programmes.
These ill-gotten efforts have effectively
robbed the youth of the paths of job openings. These
attempts will be protested with fervour,
and not taken lying down by the people of the state. The developmental
programmes of the state government must move smoothly forward.
The series of shilanyas
programmes of the railway minister came in for a dose of strong
criticism. The speaker described the
series of such
programmes as a festival of stone-laying ceremony.
What the people must realise is that paving
the state with commemorative stones would not serve to create jobs. The speaker gave call to the people to hold
aloft the Red Flag and carry forth a widening struggle against the
forces of anarchy,
counter-development, and terror. The Ganashakti as usual shall play an
important role in this regard, the speaker had no doubt.
Earlier in a programme held on
the same occasion in
Kolkata, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was pungent in his
critiquing
of the union home minister who had earlier in the week said that the
developments in Bengal were productive only of despair.
The speaker said that the home minister
should remember the state of hopeless confusion that has been created
out of
the Telangana imbroglio before levelling criticism at the Bengal LF
government. The chief minister has also
written, as he disclosed, a short letter to the home minister starting
his
case. Buddhadeb reiterated that the
killers of the �Maoists� received close tactical and logistical support
of the Trinamul
Congress and its lackeys.
Narayan Dutta, editor of Ganashakti addressed both the Kolkata and
