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Patna,(BiharTimes): On the opening day of the five-day (27-31 March) 21st Congress of the Communist Party of India here on Tuesday, a call for broader unity among all Left parties was raised.
The party called to help form a non-Congress and non-BJP front at the Centre and sought the end of rising patronage to multinational corporations and capitalism at the cost of the marginalized workers. |
Party general secretary A B Bardhan, while addressing a public meeting at Gandhi Maidan, underlined the need for Left unity and promised to work in this direction. He appealed to fraternal Left parties like the CPM, CPI(ML), Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and Forward Bloc to come up with their views on the issue, which would be deliberated at the party’s national meet.
The party Congress, inaugurated on Wednesday, is being held in the Hindi belt after 15 years. It is being attended by CPM leader Prakash Karat and CPI ML’s Dipankar Bhattacharya, Debbrato Biswas of Forward Bloc and Abani Ray of RSP.
He said people have started discarding both the Congress and BJP. This was further confirmed by the recent elections to five state Assemblies.
Bardhan urged the regional parties, which came to power in different states, to frame their economic policies and decide whether they wanted to pursue capitalist policies or fight for the causes dear to the common man.
On Bihar Bardhan criticized chief minister Nitish Kumar for not implementing the D Bandyopadhyay Commission report and for joining hands with communal BJP. He asked as to why is poverty not declining in the state despite Nitish’s tall claim of 14 per cent growth rate?
Dubbing the UPA government as a lameduck one CPI’s national secretary Atul Kumar Anjan said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh night be a honest man, but he is heading the most corrupt government since Independence. He does not have the will to stop corruption. He attributed this decline of politics to capitalism.
Referring to the BJP he said it talks of morality, but Yeddyurappa episode and porngate in Karnataka and Gujarat have exposed the saffron party.
Another national secretary, Amarjeet Kaur, demanded that the working class should get its rightful share in the natural resources, that is, jal, jungle, zameen.
Deputy general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy and party leader D Raja also spoke on the occasion.
The Bihar’s state secretary Badri Narayan Lal presided over the meeting.
Before the start the party took out a rally from Gandhi Maidan, which passed through Frazer Road, Patna Junction and Exhibition Road before culminating at the same venue.
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