[Marxistindia] Central Committee on violence in Tripura and West Bengal

[news from the cpi(m)]

June 25, 2018

 

 

Press Release

 

 

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) which met in
New Delhi from June 22 to 24, 2018 strongly condemned the violence against
the CPI(M) and the Left parties in the state of Tripura and West Bengal. 

 

 

In Tripura, since the assembly elections four comrades have been killed;
nearly 100 offices of the Party and mass organisations have been demolished,
forcibly evicted or occupied. In the face of these unabated attacks nearly
500 comrades have had to shift from their homes and are temporarily
accommodated in camps at Party offices. Apart from physically targetting
Left cadres, even programmes and events conducted by the Party and the Left
have come under attack. 

 

Even the former Chief Minister and the leader of the opposition in the
Tripura Assembly, Manik Sarkar, was obstructed from visiting distressed
tribal areas along with a team of elected MLAs. The leader of the opposition
discharges responsibilities equivalent to the rank of a cabinet minister
under Indian parliamentary democracy. Obstructing his legitimate programmes
is unprecedented in the history of Indian parliamentary democracy and
constitutes a violation of Constitutional rights of legislators. 

 

West Bengal: The Central Committee deplored the all-out violent attacks on
the Opposition, particularly on the CPI(M) and the Left, including
implicating thousands of cadres with false cases, attacks on livelihood and
properties of our cadres and their family members across the State.

 

The Central Committee noted with concern that recent panchayat elections in
West Bengal was turned into a total farce by the ruling TMC. During the
entire election period attacks were mounted on opposition parties and their
candidates through collaboration of police, state administration, state
election commission and the terror brigade of the TMC. Even family members
of candidates were targeted for attack. Ten comrades were martyred during
the course of these elections. 

 

Given the grave situation in both these states, the Central Committee
decided to hold a national level protest against the murder of democracy in
the states of West Bengal and Tripura in the month of July.

 

 

 

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