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Agartala, Aug 21, 2011 : Left Front in Tripura has embarked on an agitation programme virtually on the Anna line. The Marxists opposed the Team Anna’s supposed attempt to bypass the Parliamentary for the Lok pal Bill but keeping in mind the turbulence that the UPA government due to to ‘anti-corruption movement’ the ruling party here would launch a movement on Tuesday to press for 'an effective Lokpal' . The programme included among others protest demonstrations across the state where all the paryy frontal organizations would take part.
The CPM will also protest police high-handedness to curb democratic and peaceful agiations as happened in the case of Anna Hazare's movement in Delhi. 'The call for this agiation has been given by altogether nine secular opposition parties including four left parties and this will be organised on August 23 across India ; we the left parties have been pressing for an effective institution of Lokpal for the past many years and now is the time to refocus on the issue' said CPI (M) state secretary and party's central committee member Bijan Dhar.
Interacting with the media in the state CPI (M) party headquarter in Melarmath area of Agartala, Dhar said that the draft Lokpal bill prepared by Centre is 'toothless and ineffective' and it needed to be given more teeth and power to effectively act as anti-corruption ombudsman. 'Besides, we want the Centre to constitute a judicial accountability commission for curbing corrupt practices in the judiciary because it is now a proven fact that a section of the judiciary is corrupt' said Dhar. He also pointed out that the left parties want concrete measures includng launching of an institutional mechanism to curb the widespread use of black money in elections . 'Use of black money for purchasing votes has reached alarming proportions ; this has to be completely eliminated because black money stands in the way of people recording their actual political choice in elections' said Dhar. He added that the widespread support to the movement launched by Anna Hazare proves the peoples spontaneous protest against 'unprecedented corruption' in the country under the UPA-II regime. He also reiterated the CPI (M)'s stated position that in parliamentary democracy 'the supremacy of the parliament must be maintaiend and safeguarded as NGOs and civil society can not be final arbiters on the issue'.
On the issue of West Bengal , he said that a reign of terror was on there and on August 4 four left parties will organise a sit-in demonstration in front of the parliament in Delhi. 'The Trinamool-Congress combine had promised not to indulge in political vendetta but this is exactly what is happening now , many of our party workers have been killed or hounded out of homes by supporters of Trinamol; this is political vendetta at its worst' said Dhar , adding that left front workers and supporters would fight the terror unleashed by Trinamool with support from the common people. He dismissed Trinamool general secretary and union minister for shipping Mukul Roy's assertion in a meeting at Agartala that Trinamool would capture power in 2013 as 'wishful thinking'. 'Every body has a right to dream but the strength of Trinamool here is too negligible to hope for much ; who will win the next assembly polls in Tripura will be decided by the people of the state' said Dhar.
Agartala, Aug 21, 2011 : Left Front in Tripura has embarked on an agitation programme virtually on the Anna line. The Marxists opposed the Team Anna’s supposed attempt to bypass the Parliamentary for the Lok pal Bill but keeping in mind the turbulence that the UPA government due to to ‘anti-corruption movement’ the ruling party here would launch a movement on Tuesday to press for 'an effective Lokpal' . The programme included among others protest demonstrations across the state where all the paryy frontal organizations would take part.
The CPM will also protest police high-handedness to curb democratic and peaceful agiations as happened in the case of Anna Hazare's movement in Delhi. 'The call for this agiation has been given by altogether nine secular opposition parties including four left parties and this will be organised on August 23 across India ; we the left parties have been pressing for an effective institution of Lokpal for the past many years and now is the time to refocus on the issue' said CPI (M) state secretary and party's central committee member Bijan Dhar.
Interacting with the media in the state CPI (M) party headquarter in Melarmath area of Agartala, Dhar said that the draft Lokpal bill prepared by Centre is 'toothless and ineffective' and it needed to be given more teeth and power to effectively act as anti-corruption ombudsman. 'Besides, we want the Centre to constitute a judicial accountability commission for curbing corrupt practices in the judiciary because it is now a proven fact that a section of the judiciary is corrupt' said Dhar. He also pointed out that the left parties want concrete measures includng launching of an institutional mechanism to curb the widespread use of black money in elections . 'Use of black money for purchasing votes has reached alarming proportions ; this has to be completely eliminated because black money stands in the way of people recording their actual political choice in elections' said Dhar. He added that the widespread support to the movement launched by Anna Hazare proves the peoples spontaneous protest against 'unprecedented corruption' in the country under the UPA-II regime. He also reiterated the CPI (M)'s stated position that in parliamentary democracy 'the supremacy of the parliament must be maintaiend and safeguarded as NGOs and civil society can not be final arbiters on the issue'.
On the issue of West Bengal , he said that a reign of terror was on there and on August 4 four left parties will organise a sit-in demonstration in front of the parliament in Delhi. 'The Trinamool-Congress combine had promised not to indulge in political vendetta but this is exactly what is happening now , many of our party workers have been killed or hounded out of homes by supporters of Trinamol; this is political vendetta at its worst' said Dhar , adding that left front workers and supporters would fight the terror unleashed by Trinamool with support from the common people. He dismissed Trinamool general secretary and union minister for shipping Mukul Roy's assertion in a meeting at Agartala that Trinamool would capture power in 2013 as 'wishful thinking'. 'Every body has a right to dream but the strength of Trinamool here is too negligible to hope for much ; who will win the next assembly polls in Tripura will be decided by the people of the state' said Dhar.
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