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"It has been noticed that some leaders are making statements publicly which encroach on the policy decisions of the Left Front. It has been decided that they will not make such public comments," LF chairman Biman Bose told reporters after a meeting of the Left Front Committee.
On policy decisions of the Left Front it has to be raised at our meetings, he said.
LF decisions also could not be raised at the cabinet core committee, though grievances on the policies of the government could be discussed with the chief minister, he said.
West Bengal Socialist Party leader and Fisheries Minister Kiranmoy Nanda had on November 12 demanded that the 2011 assembly elections be advanced.
A day later, RSP leader and PWD Minister Kshiti Goswami said that the people had rejected the Front by giving its mandate against it in the November seven by-elections to 10 assembly seats. The CPI-M did not win a single seat. Nanda was not present at the meeting, but Goswami attended it.
Bose, who has defended the CPI-M state secretariat's decision to hold elections on schedule, said that there was no discussion on the issue today nor was there any review of the reasons behind the assembly by-election debacle.
On CPI General Secretary A B Bardhan saying that the CPI-M being the largest partner had the biggest responsibility and should correct whatever mistakes committed, Bose replied, "every constituent has to share responsibility. CPI-M being the largest constituent has to share larger responsibility."
He, however, said that constituents were free to express opinions and take decisions on various issues at their own party meetings.
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The gag order issued by the Left Front (LF) wont be of much help. The CPI(M), led by the State Secretary Biman Bose, had tried this with the Late Subhas Chakraborty (the erstwhile Transport minister) who made candid remarks at regular intervals. These remarks often caused discomfort to the LF, but he didnt stop even after repeated warnings. Going by that, one can not help predicting that the CPI(M), in spite of being the dominating partner in the LF, will not be able to stop ministers from airing their views in public - especially those who hail from other parties of the LF such as Kshiti Goswami of the RSP.
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This is another classic example of the Left violating our constitutional rights. The people has every right to hear a minister or an elected representative. A group of politician, some of whom are not even an elected representative, can not issue such orders. It is still more heinous crime to issue instruction to the cabinet ministers preventing them from discharging their constitutional duties.
Sour grapes? Chinese spies and Marxist relics..begone! Realize that your time has 'elapsed'. Berlin wall, Perestroika, Tiananmen revolution, Eastern Europe...when will you learn? Your peemp (read with an i) China is the biggest capitalist. Bye bye you parasitic organisms.
A gag order for those who are not allowed to express themselves freely and to speak their minds anyway? What will they be left with? Their souls are already sold to the ghosts of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Their hearts are already bound by the chains of the extreme partisanship of the supremacy of the party over all else. I guess they will be left with nothing else but the leftovers of the Left Front. To lament, repent, and hopefully make amends for so that they may finally seek our the right path for themselves, and leave the people alone to live their lives freely, fearlessly, peacefully and righteously.