People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 08
February 23, 2003
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVII No. 08 February 23, 2003 |
THE
CPI(M)
has
dubbed
the
Congress
party’s
recent
election
manifesto
as
a
document
of
deception
and
duplicity,
designed
to
dupe
the
people
of
Tripura.
The
party
has
urged
the
people
to
give
a
befitting
rebuff
to
the
Congress-INPT
combine
in
the
assembly
polls.
According
to
CPI(M)
spokesman
Gautam
Das,
the
way
the
Congress
released
its
poll
manifesto
unilaterally,
leaving
aside
its
ally,
and
the
way
it
issued
a
manifesto
in
English
language,
leaving
aside
Bengali
which
almost
100
per
cent
of
the
state’s
people
know,
shows
its
desperate
bid
to
play
hide
and
seek
with
the
people
and
mask
the
devilish
design
of
the
unprincipled
alliance.
Das
also
pointed
to
the
unexplained
anomaly
of
the
Congress
allying
with
a
regional,
separatist
party
in
Tripura,
while
Congress
president
Sonia
Gandhi
lashed
at
the
regional
parties
in
her
election
meetings
in
Meghalaya.
In
the
preface
to
the
poll
manifesto,
the
Congress
has
given
a
larger
than
life
picture
of
the
extremist
killings,
kidnapping
and
ousters
of
the
people
from
their
hearth
and
home,
blissfully
ignoring
that
it
is
allied
with
the
same
extremists
who
are
responsible
for
violent
atrocities
on
innocent
people.
Most
of
them
are
leaders,
activists
and
supporters
of
the
CPI(M),
Das
pointed
out.
As
for
the
wild
allegations
against
Left
Front,
Das
thrashed
them
saying
that
a
semi-fascist
jungle
rule
was
unleashed
during
the
1988-93
Congress-TUJS
regime,
when
there
was
no
security
of
life
and
property,
no
democracy,
no
financial
discipline,
no
development
and
no
welfare
of
the
people.
The
plethora
of
pledges
in
the
Congress
manifesto
is
nothing
but
a
desperate
bid
to
hoodwink
the
people.
These
pledges
are
given
a
lie
by
the
dismal
track
record
of
the
Congress
governments
in
several
states
of
the
country
in
respect
of
welfare,
development
and
employment,
Das
said.
He
also
protested
some
preposterous
pleas
made
by
the
Congress
party
to
the
Election
Commission.
Finally,
Das
issued
a
stern
warning
to
the
Congress
party
that
it
should
be
prepared
to
pay
for
each
and
every
incident
of
extremist
carnage
in
the
course
of
its
terror
campaign
to
stall
free
and
fair
polling.
In
the
meantime,
the
CPI(M)-Left
Front’s
numerous
rallies
statewide,
being
held
everyday
in
the
teeth
of
the
extremist
campaign
of
terror,
are
making
the
writing
on
the
wall
increasingly
clear.
(INN)
