November 23, 2014
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UTTAR PRADESH: Solidarity Rally with the People of West Bengal & Dharna on 15 point Demands

Sadhusharan

AN impressive procession of peasants, workers, women and youth was held in Deoria in Uttar Pradesh on November 1 in solidarity with the people of West Bengal who are under serious attack by the ruling party, TMC goons – police – administration combine. The procession began from Deoria Sadar railway station and marched through the main thoroughfares of the town, raising slogans and distributing handbills, reached the district magistrate’s office where it converted into a rally, dharna and public meeting. The rally and public meeting was also to celebrate through struggle the 50th anniversary of the Party. The speakers in the rally narrated about the attacks on CPI(M) and other Left parties’ members and supporters, the atrocities on the women, the attack on the democratic rights of the people and TMC becoming mainly responsible for the rise of communal forces in West Bengal. The speakers spoke on the formation of the CPI(M) 50 years back and the ideological-political-organisational foundations; building unity and struggles of the working class, peasants, agricultural workers and other sections of toiling masses; its fight against communalism; defending people’s democratic rights; emergence as the main Left party in the country; and about formation of the Left-led governments in West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura during these 50 years. The speakers narrated about the anti-workers and anti-people, aggressive pro-corporate and communal policies of Modi government at the centre and the failures in every front of the Samajwadi party government in Uttar Pradesh. CPI(M) Central Committee member J S Majumdar was the main speaker. District secretary Sadhusharan explained the current issues of the peasants, women, scheme workers, including the mid-day-meal workers, and of the people of the district. Other district committee and mass organisation leaders, who also addressed the rally, included Satish Kumar, Chandrabhan Singh, Ramashankar Gupta; and district AIDWA leaders Urmila Yadav, Vidyavati Devi and Sangita Devi. The rally approved a 15 point charter of demands. The district magistrate came to the place of rally and received the memorandum on demands assuring immediate possible actions at his level, to send policy issues to state government and to forward the demands related to the central and West Bengal governments.