ELECTION

Mahajot is unholy alliance against LF : Biman Bose

 

COOCH BEHAR, May 13: State Left Front chairman and CPI-M secretary, Mr Biman Bose observes that the Congress, the BJP, Trinamul Congress and the GCDP – all are tied in a single string. These unholy forces formed the mahajot (great alliance). They have no specific ideal or aim. With negative approach they are contesting the election. One cannot see them throughout the year. They come only before any election and try to purchase people with money, he alleged. He was found cautious enough in naming Forward Bloc as a mahajot partner.

 

Mr Bose arrived Cooch Behar on Monday evening and addressed a few election meetings at Natabari and Baneswar in the district. Today too he spoke at a gathering at Barokodali. Everywhere he came down heavily on the opposition parties.

 

During his address Mr Bose claimed that there was no cold storage in Cooch Behar district when the Left Front came to power. Now there are fourteen cold storages running and a few are on the pipeline. The Congress and its by-product, the Trinamul Congress, should answer why this district was an underdeveloped one during the regime of the Congress.

 

The CPI-M leader believes that the improvement of agriculture was possible in this state due to the well-functioned panchayat system. The opposition parties are talking about agriculture versus industry. "But, we don't want industrialisation by destroying the agricultural base. Industrialisation should be done alongwith agriculture", he explained.

 

Mr Bose recalled that the former Prime Minister late Rajib Gandhi once desired to launch the panchayat system in the country taking West Bengal as the role model. Panchayat election is not conducted regularly in other states and the elected ones are not actual representatives of the people. They are landlords and so they cannot feel the problems and plights of small and marginal peasants, he alleged. Here, the Left Front run government spends fifty percent of the budget allocation through the panchayat system for development of villages and the rural people. They always stand beside the people throughout the year, he claimed.

 

Mr Bose alleged that the country is suffering from food crisis because the overall agricultural production came down by two percent. But in West Bengal the situation is different. Here the production increased by four percent, he claimed. []