Left Front lists protests marches, sit-in from Monday
In the coming week, the Left Front has called for a Lalbazar march, and it has been decided in a meeting last night that there will be a sit-in protest on the streets as well.
In the coming week, the Left Front has called for a Lalbazar march, and it has been decided in a meeting last night that there will be a sit-in protest on the streets as well.
The Left Front leadership is trying to woo the huge Kurmi Mahato votebank in Purulia district and has made a tactical move, feel political experts here.
State BJP leaders, however, refused to make any comment on the absence of their legislators on the occasion.
LF has increased its vote share and reached second position in Bidhannagar and Chandannagar civic bodies eclipsing BJP that had emerged as the main opposition in the assembly polls. Trinamul Congress has got nearly 74 per cent votes while it is around 11 per cent for the LF in Bidhannagar municipality. For the saffron camp the vote percentage is around 8.5 per cent.
The Left leadership has admitted to problems related to roads, drainage system, disposal of garbage, while it has promised that it would look into the issues seriously after coming to power. On the other hand, the Left claimed that it would manage approval for a safe drinking water project from authorities concerned and formulate a proper plan to keep the Mahananda river healthy by bringing in beautification plans on either side of the river and by building parks.
The next meeting is scheduled on 28 January and final list of nominees of the both parties is likely to be announced on either 31 Jan or 1 Feb
The outlandish political event took place at Lenin Park in Kharagpur's block number 20 when local MLA Pradip Sarkar unveiled the Marxist icon's sculpture.
"Common people could not cast their votes in the state in the last panchayat elections. TMC cadres captured booths and used the state police in their favour in all the districts. If fresh Assembly elections are held, it is a fact that the TMC government will fall," Mr Chowdhury said.
SUCI state secretary Chandidas Bhattacharya has said that to fight BJP and TMC, the left parties need a greater alliance among themselves without Congres.
The VACB raided 40 branches of the KSFE on Saturday and found serious irregularities in 35 of them. While four branches were found to have committed fraud in sanctioning gold loans, 10 kept the pledged gold ornaments without proper security.
