Forward Bloc declares action plan

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 11: Forward Bloc will organise state-wide movement after 29 February if the government fails to withdraw the cases lodged against its leaders and activists by that date. Announcing the programme the general secretary of All India Forward Bloc Mr Debabrata Biswas said they would demonstrate and court arrest at all the offices of DMs and SPs in the state after 29 February.

 

Mr Biswas attended the secretariat meeting of Cooch Behar district Forward Bloc at Dinhata today. He said the Dinhata issue would come up at the council meeting of the party to be held at Nagpur on 15-17 February where resolutions will be adopted to organise countrywide movement against police atrocities.

 

Tomorrow, the party supporters will observe Black Day by wearing black badges and tying black cloth on faces throughout the state. From 15 February to 29 February condolence meetings will be held at all gram panchayat areas in Cooch Behar district to pay respect to the martyrs who were killed in 5 February police firing, Mr Biswas said.

 

On 3 March, Subhas Beer Chakra will be conferred to the family members of the five martyrs at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata.

 

Mr Biswas handed over their declared assistance of Rs 3-lakh to the next kin of the five killed FB men today. He also declared Rs 2,000 for each of the injured 25 supporters. The families of the 40 arrested persons are to get Rs 1,000 each. On behalf of TUCC Rs 5,000 were disbursed to the five families.

 

Mentionworthy, Cooch Behar district unit of Forward Bloc has reviewed the situation that came up after the death of its five activists in police firing at Dinhata on 5 February during the law-violation programme. The two-day workers' convention that began on Saturday at Nripendra Narayan Memorial Hall in Dinhata to discuss the issue concluded yesterday. In the close-door meeting the leaders of the party listened the opinions of the grass-root level workers to study the pulse of the supporters about staying in the Left Front and in the ministry and the party's relation with the CPI-M.

 

Summing up the outcome of the two-day meet the district secretariat meeting of the party was held today to chalk out the next phase of movement, according to the Cooch Behar district Forward Bloc secretary Mr Udayan Guha. []