POST-POLL POLITICS

GP board formation : CPM, FB to punish rebels

 

COOCH BEHAR, June 27: Though they had failed to attain a total consensus in the recently held three-tier panchayat elections in Cooch Behar district, the CPI-M and the Forward Bloc are now in favour of formation of Gram Panchayat and Panchayat Samiti boards jointly as loyal Left Front partners.

 

On Friday afternoon, after a bipartite meeting the district CPI-M secretary Mr Chandi Pal and the district Forward Bloc secretary Mr Udayan Guha said in 128 Gram Panchayats in this district, boards were formed in 114 Gram Panchayats till today. In a number of these Gram Panchayats the local leaders and activists of both the parties had violated the Left Front's guideline. The offenders were instructed to follow the Left Front's formula and resign from the posts that they captured by violating the guideline, Mr Pal and Mr Guha said. Otherwise, the party concerned will take strict punitive measures against them.

 

The CPI-M and the FB leader said they would also follow the Left Front's guideline during formation of boards of the Panchayat Samitis on 2 July.

 

Clarifying the decision, Mr Pal, who is also the district Left Front convenor, said, according to the Left Front's policy the party that attained majority should get the post of the Pradhan and the second ranker will get the post of Upa-pradhan. But, in many places these policy was violated.

 

It was learnt that in some Gram Panchayats the elected rebel FB candidates formed boards with non-leftists to resist the CPI-M to stage come back to power. Disobeying of post-poll official guideline was also observed in some areas where they fought against the CPI-M by making alliance with anti-CPI-M parties.

 

The FB leader, Mr Guha admitted that a tendency grew up at many areas to disobey the leaderships of the parties. This issue was also discussed in today's meeting, he said. []