Forward Bloc to hold rally at Singur tomorrow

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Posted online: Saturday , January 05, 2008 at 12:00:00
Updated: Saturday , January 05, 2008 at 01:40:24

Kolkata, January 4 After Nandigram, Singur is the next stop on the itinerary of Forward Bloc state secretary Ashok Ghosh. He will address a rally at Singur on Sunday to “expose the CPM’s pro-capitalist agenda” and protest against farmland acquisition for the Tata Motors’ small car project.

At a high-level meeting in Bolpur, Bloc leaders decided that they will not support any plans and programmes of the CPM to forcibly set up industries on acquired farmland.

Ashok Ghosh has always opposed the Left Front government’s plan to set up a small car factory at Singur. He had also passively supported Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s 25-day fast and demonstration against land acquisition in Singur.

Hafiz Alam Sairani, a member of the Bloc’s state secretariat, said whether it is Singur or Nandigram the party has decided to expose the “other face of the Left Front government” because it believes that all Left Front partners have a separate identity.

“Our party believes the Left Front government has adopted some anti-people programmes which could harm the pro-people image of Bengal’s Left,” said Sairani.

CPM leaders have not openly reacted to Bloc’s decision, but they claimed it was the FB’s decision to go it alone in the forthcoming panchayat elections that forced it to organise a rally against the CPM.

“Why are they holding a rally now, given that it has been a year since the land acquisition process began at Singur,” said a senior leader of the CPM.

Front sources said RSP and Forward Bloc will continue their “fight” against big brother CPM. RSP leader and state PWD minister Kshiti Goswami said: “In some of its recent dealings, the government has lost its humane face. Forcible land acquisition in Singur is one such glaring example.”

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