Left Front unity a farce says RSP report

 

COOCH BEHAR, Jan. 15: In the political report that was tabled at the sixteenth Cooch Behar district conference of RSP the CPI-M was criticised for its authoritarian role in running of the Left Front. The two-day RSP conference concluded today at Sukanta Mancha here.

 

It the political report it was stated that the RSP always participated in all programmes of Left Front and attended all meetings. Till the Nandigram happenings the party was invited in the meetings of District Left Front but the decisions were taken after bipartite discussions between CPI-M and Forward and those were delivered as the decisions of the Left Front. "They never felt it necessary to take our opinions on any issue", the report says.

 

In the report it was alleged that though they made appeals several times but the CPI-M never lent ears to their justified demands. The RSP has no representation in any committee associated with district administration. The CPI-M has forcefully occupied all the memberships in those committees and for this reason there is no environment for a total and effective Left Front in this district.  

 

The RSP had bagged three Gram Panchayat seats in the last three-tier panchayat elections though the Left Front allotted two seats only to the party. The total Left Front unity in its true sense was never attained in this district due to the CPI-M's big brotherly attitude.

 

It was alleged in the report that the RSP has sufficient organisational strength in Tufanganj, Dinhata and a few areas in Cooch Behar Sadar sub-divisions. But the CPI-M never allowed them to field candidates in these areas. In the name of Left Front unity the RSP was allotted with two seats only but the CPI-M and the Forward Bloc have a tendency to field ghost candidates against the RSP's official candidates.

 

To meet the situation the RSP had to fight alone in the last rural polls. There is no Left Front unity in this district. It is only a bilateral understanding between the CPI-M and the Forward Bloc. The two parties take decisions and that are passed as decisions of Left Front. Left Front unity turned a farce here, the report says. []