The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement on August 14, 2015.
THE Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns the attack on Surjyakanta Misra, member of its Polit Bureau and secretary of the West Bengal state committee of the Party and other leaders of the Left Front. Misra, who is also leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly along with other district leaders of the Left Front, was going to visit the camps housing the flood affected in Udanarayanpur in Howrah district.