Left, Congress, ISF take out joint rally towards panchayat ballot violence

By PTI

KOLKATA: The CPI(M)-led Left Front, Congress and the Indian Secular Front (ISF) on Thursday collectively organised a rally right here to protest towards the violence in not too long ago held panchayat polls in West Bengal.

CPI (M) state secretary Md Salim, Left Front chairman Biman Bose, senior leaders of different Left events and people of the Congress and ISF have been amongst 1000-odd individuals who took half within the rally that began from the Ramlila Maidan at Moulali to Esplanade, round two km away.

“The ruling TMC with the active support of the State Election Commission has murdered democracy in the name of holding panchayat polls where the Left and Congress candidates and their families were threatened and attacked,” Salim informed reporters.

Ballot bins have been destroyed and poll papers have been snatched by the TMC goons, he alleged, asserting that the state’s ruling celebration did this because it was positive to lose had the panchayat polls been held in a free and honest method.

The senior CPI(M) chief claimed {that a} discreet understanding exists between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “and none is really bothered about ending the atrocities of the poor under the TMC rule in West Bengal”.

TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated sinking their ideology for the sake of energy, the 2 ideologically completely different camps joined fingers with the only real intention to defeat the TMC “by hook or crook”.

They are resorting to the “false narrative” of terror by the TMC though it was the ruling celebration staff who largely died within the panchayat poll-related violence instigated by the Congress, Left, ISF and the BJP, he alleged.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that 19 individuals, largely from her TMC, died in poll-related violence because the election date was introduced on June 8.

Police sources, nevertheless, have put the variety of fatalities at 38 however agree that no less than 60 per cent of those that misplaced their lives have been affiliated with the TMC.

Meanwhile, political analyst Sibaji Pratim Basu stated the Muslim farmers supported the TMC within the 2006-07 Singur and Nandigram anti-land acquisition motion.

There are indicators about ISF eyeing that section of individuals due to preacher Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui as many Muslims are followers of Furfura Sharif, a holy place for Bengali Muslims.

Siddiqui, who belongs to the household related to Furfura Sharif, fashioned the celebration forward of the 2021 meeting elections.

“The ISF is seeking to emerge as an alternative to the TMC as evident in Bhangor-2 block where it throws a challenge to influential TMC leader Arabul Islam,” Basu added.

The ISF, which entered into an understanding with the Left and Congress earlier than the 2021 meeting polls, received 9 panchayat samiti seats and one zilla parishad seat in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district.

It additionally received 66-gram panchayat seats in Bhangar and 23 in Kulpi.

Professor of political science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Prof Maidul Islam informed PTI that ISF has received mileage with its efficiency within the panchayat polls however it stays to be seen the way it will capitalise on this in coming days.

“There is a perception among a section of minorities that the aspirations of young minority voters remain unrealised by non-BJP political parties who got their support in the past. Some of these people are of the opinion that ISF can fill the void,” Islam stated.

KOLKATA: The CPI(M)-led Left Front, Congress and the Indian Secular Front (ISF) on Thursday collectively organised a rally right here to protest towards the violence in not too long ago held panchayat polls in West Bengal.

CPI (M) state secretary Md Salim, Left Front chairman Biman Bose, senior leaders of different Left events and people of the Congress and ISF have been amongst 1000-odd individuals who took half within the rally that began from the Ramlila Maidan at Moulali to Esplanade, round two km away.

“The ruling TMC with the active support of the State Election Commission has murdered democracy in the name of holding panchayat polls where the Left and Congress candidates and their families were threatened and attacked,” Salim informed reporters.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Ballot bins have been destroyed and poll papers have been snatched by the TMC goons, he alleged, asserting that the state’s ruling celebration did this because it was positive to lose had the panchayat polls been held in a free and honest method.

The senior CPI(M) chief claimed {that a} discreet understanding exists between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “and none is really bothered about ending the atrocities of the poor under the TMC rule in West Bengal”.

TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated sinking their ideology for the sake of energy, the 2 ideologically completely different camps joined fingers with the only real intention to defeat the TMC “by hook or crook”.

They are resorting to the “false narrative” of terror by the TMC though it was the ruling celebration staff who largely died within the panchayat poll-related violence instigated by the Congress, Left, ISF and the BJP, he alleged.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that 19 individuals, largely from her TMC, died in poll-related violence because the election date was introduced on June 8.

Police sources, nevertheless, have put the variety of fatalities at 38 however agree that no less than 60 per cent of those that misplaced their lives have been affiliated with the TMC.

Meanwhile, political analyst Sibaji Pratim Basu stated the Muslim farmers supported the TMC within the 2006-07 Singur and Nandigram anti-land acquisition motion.

There are indicators about ISF eyeing that section of individuals due to preacher Pirzada Abbas Siddiqui as many Muslims are followers of Furfura Sharif, a holy place for Bengali Muslims.

Siddiqui, who belongs to the household related to Furfura Sharif, fashioned the celebration forward of the 2021 meeting elections.

“The ISF is seeking to emerge as an alternative to the TMC as evident in Bhangor-2 block where it throws a challenge to influential TMC leader Arabul Islam,” Basu added.

The ISF, which entered into an understanding with the Left and Congress earlier than the 2021 meeting polls, received 9 panchayat samiti seats and one zilla parishad seat in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district.

It additionally received 66-gram panchayat seats in Bhangar and 23 in Kulpi.

Professor of political science, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Prof Maidul Islam informed PTI that ISF has received mileage with its efficiency within the panchayat polls however it stays to be seen the way it will capitalise on this in coming days.

“There is a perception among a section of minorities that the aspirations of young minority voters remain unrealised by non-BJP political parties who got their support in the past. Some of these people are of the opinion that ISF can fill the void,” Islam stated.