People's Democracy(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Vol. XXXIV
No.
12 March 21, 2010 |
MARCH
12 LEFT RALLY
JAIL BHARO
APRIL
8OVER one lakh people participated in the March
to Parliament and the Left Parties rally on March 12 against price
rice,
for land rights, employment and against the violence on the Left in
West
Bengal.
At the conclusion of the rally, the Left parties announced that on
April 8, in
all districts headquarters there will be mass picketing and court
arrest
programmes outside central government offices. 25 lakh people will
participate
in this programme to demand immediate steps to curb price rise and for
strengthening the public distribution system, implementation of land
reforms
and employment opportunities.
The
rally was addressed by Prakash Karat, A B Bardhan, Debabrata Biswas and
T J
Chandrachoodan - general secretaries of the CPI(M), CPI, AIFB and RSP.
The
other speakers were Biman Bose, chairman of the West Bengal Left Front,
Sitaram
Yechury, Polit Bureau member of CPI(M) and Gurudas Dasgupta, CPI leader.