People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No. 02
January 13, 2013
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Vol. XXXVII
No. 02 January 13, 2013 |
EDITORIAL
TRINAMUL
IN
Defeat the Politics of Terror
A BRUTAL gang-rape
of democracy took
place in
A 50,000 strong
CPI(M) rally
protesting against the attack on senior Party leader, a
member of the state assembly,
having been elected uninterruptedly for the last forty years
and minister for
land reforms in the Left Front governments, Abdur Rezzak
Mollah on January 6 by
Trinamul Congress goons
led by one
Arabul Islam who lost the last state assembly elections, was
brutally attacked
by armed TMC goons.
Rezzak Mollah was
traveling to attend
the district Kisan Sabha conference, on the way when he went
to visit a CPI(M)
office that was ransacked and burnt down by the TMC goons,
he was brutally
attacked. He
was admitted in a nearby
private nursing home. The
TMC-led state
administration, in a display of depraved inhumanity,
pressurised the hospital
to discharge Mollah without
being
properly treated. The
intention was to
show that he was not grievously hurt. However, the MRI
scan report of the same
hospital showed that he had a serious fracture in his
backbone near his
waist. In a
perfidious manner, the same
Arabul Islam, who led the attack, got himself admitted in a
private nursing
home claiming to be injured.
The doctors
there, however, pronounced that he had no injuries.
In this attack, 20
vehicles carrying
CPI(M) supporters to the protest rally were attacked and set
on fire. 27
protestors were injured with three
suffering from bullet injuries. Five are
in hospital at this very moment battling for life. Instead of taking
any action on those who
mounted such a grievous attack, the state police under
directions from the TMC
chief are arresting those who are victims of this attack. The perpetrators
moved around scot-free while
the victims are being arrested under false charges.
Worse is the fact
that senior
ministers of the state government are openly justifying this
attack and trying
to project this as a CPI(M) initiated attack on the TMC. The right to
peacefully protest is a right
guaranteed under the Indian constitution and law. Instead of
ensuring that the
law of the land is implemented, the Trinamul Congress state
government has
actually been using the state administration to deny people
the right to
peacefully protest and, on the contrary, to foist false
cases against CPI(M)
and Left
supporters.
From May 2011,
after the state assembly
elections, till December 31, 2012, 85 CPI(M) comrades have
been murderously
killed by the TMC goons.
There have been
so far 848 physical assaults on women in which there were
129 brutal
rapes. In many
of these cases, instead
of taking action against the culprits, the Trinamul
Congress, including the chief
minister, has trivialised
such heinous
sexual assaults on women.
Rape and
physical assaults on women have become an instrument of
demonstrating the TMC’s
political power.
Since the assembly
elections, 42,724
CPI(M) and Left sympathisers were evicted from their regular
residences. Nearly
3,000 houses have been burnt and
looted. 646
CPI(M) offices across the
state have been attacked and ransacked.
222 trade union and other mass organisation offices
have been forcibly
captured by the TMC goons.
There is a
large scale attack on educational institutions and 84
students’ union offices,
where the TMC students wing lost the elections, have been
`captured’. 3,336
CPI(M) leaders and activists are arrested on false and
fabricated cases.
There is large
scale extortion that
is taking place by the TMC goons all across the state. The forceful
collection of money from nearly
10,000 people has benefited the TMC by nearly Rs 28 crores.
Rezzak Mollah has
been the target of
the TMC since he was the minister for land reforms. The Left Front
government’s implementation of
land reforms has
deprived many a former
landlord of their illegally held land above the ceiling. These sections
have been systematically
undoing the gains of the poor farmer and agricultural labour
as a result of
land reforms. Nearly
3,500 such farmers
are not been allowed to cultivate their own land amounting
to nearly 10,000
acres. 27,283
patta holders and
bargadars who were given land legally under the land reforms
have been evicted
in an area of nearly 10,000 acres.
This is the
`paribortan’ that is
taking place in
The semi-fascist
terror was resisted
by the CPI(M) which
lost over 12,000 of
its leading cadres in murderous assaults and tens of
thousands of families were
evicted and many leaders had to function from the
underground. The
people of
The people of
(January 09, 2012)
