[Marxistindia] Greeting the People of West Bengal

[news from the cpi(m)]

July 11, 2023

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement: 

 

Greeting the People of West Bengal

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) congratulates the
people of West Bengal, the Left Front and other democratic forces who have
shown extreme courage and resilience in fighting back the unprecedented
violence unleashed by the TMC and the obnoxious partisan role played by the
state administration and the state Election Commission during the panchayat
elections held on July 8 across the state.  Sixty people have been killed
and hundreds injured in course of the electoral battle.

 

The violence was specifically aimed at denying the people the democratic
right of exercising their choice in a free and fair poll.  The horrific
terror span across all stages of the election starting with preventing
filing of nominations, forcing withdrawals, manipulating the process of
scrutiny and on the day of voting itself.  The ordeal has continued even
today on the date of counting where the counting centres were left
inadequately manned  with security personnel, not to speak of deployment of
Central security forces as  ordered by the Kolkata High Court.  There are
widespread instances of driving out opposition counting agents from the
counting centre, breaking the ballot boxes and throwing out ballot papers
stamped in favour of the opposition particularly the Left and its allies,
forcibly taking away certificates issued  to winning candidates with MLAs
and other  unauthorized people leading  large number of TMC goons in the
counting centre.  

 

The targeting of the opposition by the ruling party and the administration
was concentrated against the Left, the Congress and other electoral allies,
while showing a kid glove treatment for the BJP.  It has become obvious that
it is the Left, Congress and other anti-BJP, anti-TMC forces who have
frontally  confronted  this hooliganism of the ruling dispensation.  

 

The Polit Bureau particularly congratulates the people for ensuring the
victory of large number of candidates belonging to Left and other secular
allies.  The resistance of the people is the new feature of the struggle for
democracy, unity and peace in West Bengal.  

 

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

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