CPM to counter Mamata's rally

 

COOCH BEHAR, July 25: The women wing of the CPI-M, Pashchimbanga Ganatantrik Mahila Samity will organise a massive rally at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar on 2 September to counter the Trinamul Congress rally that is scheduled to be held on the previous day. Miss Mamata Bannerjee is to address that rally.

 

A few days ago Trinamul Congress announced that Miss Bannerjee would address a gathering at Shitalkuchi on 1 September. The gathering will be held to stage protest against the "forcible cremation" of a girl that was allegedly occurred at Dakshin Nalgram village of Sitalkuchi in Mathabhanga sub-division on 22 June. It may be recalled that Ms Sonali Guha (MLA), a close confidant of the firebrand leader visited that village with other leaders of the party on 30 June. They had submitted a detailed report to Miss Bannerjee. It is believed that after reviewing that report she agreed to attend a protest rally at Sitalkuchi to demand high-level inquiry into the gruesome incident and arrest of all the seven accused that are stated to be CPI-M activists.

 

Cooch Behar district CPI-M secretary Mr Chandi Pal said today that they would organise a women's gathering at Sitalkuchi on 2 September to give a fitting reply to the false allegations and spreading of scandals against CPI-M leaders and activists. He alleged that Trinamul Congress was trying to malign the image of the CPI-M by vilifying some CPI-M men of Sitalkuchi block over the baseless "forcible cremation" issue. Terming the leadership of the party as aimless he said that Trinamul Congress was suffering from lack of political issues and so they took up the natural death of a sick girl as their issue to organise movement. It is nothing but a bid to destabilise the peaceful situation of this district, Mr Pal alleged.

 

On the otherhand, Cooch Behar District Trinamul Congress president Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh said no one could ever able to suppress an act of sin. When people expect the members of Mahila Samity (of the CPI-M) to stand by the victims of rape and torture they were engaged in offering shelters to the offenders. These shameless people should form a party of rapists and villains, a sarcastic Mr Ghosh said. "We will not get away from our programme of 1 September because we cannot betray the oppressed poor people", he maintained. []