Attack Govt directionless, has no policy,
spends time in organising festivals
KOLKATA, 5 August: Within a year of the
Trinamool Congress coming to power, Opposition CPM, which had ruled the state
uninterruptedly for 34 years, on Sunday called for poriborton (change) by
launching an all out attack on Mamata Banerjee government, comparing its
functioning with that of a youth club. Interestingly, the Trinamool during its
campaign to oust the Left Front government had used the same slogan of
poriborton.
Senior CPM leaders, who had gathered to
celebrate the 124th birth anniversary of Muzaffar Ahmed — one of the
architects of the Communist Party — in Mahajati Sadan at Kolkata, slammed the government for
“failing to govern and having no policy”.
“It is very difficult to understand if any
government is there in the state. It is better to speak less and less about the
functioning of the government. It is a government, which has no policy
direction. They are only concerned about painting the railings green and
organising festivals. It is all like running a youth club and not a
government,’’ said former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
Accusing the government of failing on
maintaining law and order in the state, Bhattacharjee said anti-social elements
are now calling the shots. “Anti-social elements are very happy because they
believe their own government has come to power. Incidents of murders,
atrocities against women and children are increasing with every passing day.
And the government is terming them as canards, conspiracy and concocted. This
situation must come to an end,’’ he added.
He alleged that attacks against women, which
have surpassed all the records, could have been arrested had there been any
political will on the part of the government. “Attempt to shield any crime or
disruption of law and order is due to lack of political will of the
government,” the senior CPM leader said.
He said the government had failed to attract any
investment and there was not a single proposal to set up industry in the state.
“Infosys is yet to decide on investing in the state, while there are no
proposal for investment in the steel sector after the agreement with the
Jindals. Not a single employment opportunity has been created in the IT sector
during last one year,” Bhattacharjee said.
“In agriculture, we were the largest paddy
growers in the country, but now we are lagging behind. With poor in the
villages losing jobs and the workers having no employment opportunity, the
progress of the state is under tremendous pressure,” he added.
For his party workers, the CPM leader stressed
on the need for going back to the people to counter “this dangerous
government”.
Slam match
“During last one year, 74 CPM workers were
killed by Trinamool goons. There were as many as 623 cases where our party
offices were attacked. 12 party workers were even forced to commit suicide.
This govt has failed in all the fronts and we want a change because this cannot
go on for long” Biman Bose, CPM state committee secretary said.
“The success that the Left Front government
achieved in 34 years with the decentralisation of power has been reverted to
total centralisation of power in one person, which is a most unfortunate sign”
Nirupam Sen, Former minister said.
SOURCE: Express news service, Kolkata, Mon Aug
06 2012, 05:02 hrs
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