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CPI-M conclave salutes 'martyrs' of West Bengal
Visakhapatnam, April 16
The Communist Party of
India-Marxist's on-going Congress has saluted 104 "martyrs" who
sacrificed their lives in West Bengal and has alleged that subversion
of democracy and democratic rights is widespread the state.
The
party on the third day of its 21st Congress on Thursday passed a
resolution expressing solidarity with the people of West Bengal.
The
conclave called upon the party all over India to stand in solidarity
with the fight for democracy, secular values, and peoples' advance to
counter the slander being spread against the Left Front governments, and
to defend the historic gains of the people during 34 years of Left
Front rule.
In one of the five resolutions adopted by the party
on Thursday, it paid homage to 104 cadres who sacrificed their precious
lives in the period since the last party Congress.
"The 21st
Congress extends its warm greetings to the courageous fighters in West
Bengal who have defended the red flag and the Left Front and Left
movement in the face of unprecedented and multiple forms of violence
unleashed by the Trinamool Congress with the backing of police and under
the patronage of its top leaders, including the chief minister in
league with reactionary forces," the party said in a resolution.
"The
Congress holds that the historical experience of authoritarian regimes
in different parts of the world is being re-enacted in the cruelest form
in Bengal, where the assault against political opponents has now
expanded to include intolerance and coercion against all dissent."
It
said: "Under the Trinamool Congress, Bengal is in the grip of a regime
that has utter contempt for basic democratic norms. Even as the TMC
involvement in the Sarada and other chit fund scams involving thousands
of crores of rupees is exposed before the people, the TMC is becoming
more desperate, making wild charges to stem the growing resistance of
the people."
The 21st CPI-M Congress noted that policies of the
TMC, which encourage fundamentalism of different forms, are providing a
fertile ground for fascistic organisations like the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other members of the Hindutva brigade to
expand their presence in Bengal.
Bengal has been and is the
standard bearer of the communist and Left movement in the country and
therefore is the target of most cruel form of attack by the ruling
classes at all levels, it added.
The conclave condemned the
killing of its worker in Kannur, Kerala. Paying homage to Vinodan (36),
it alleged that the RSS killed him by attacking with bombs.
"Comrade
Vinodan is the fourth person associated with the CPI-M whom the RSS has
murdered in the last two months in Kerala," the party tweeted.