Leader of the opposition Legislative Assembly
West Bengal
Kolkata
Date. 3rd June, 2011
Hon’ble
Smt. Mamata Banerjee
Chief Minister, West Bengal
Writer’s Buildings, Kolkata
Madam,
The Left Front Legislature Party of West Bengal Legislative Assembly takes note with deep concern of the fact that the widespread violent attack that started on Left Leaders, workers and supporters, Left Party and mass organizations offices, Panchayats, Municipalities and other elected bodies, educational institutions at all stages, clubs, other cultural organizations following declaration of 15th Assembly Election Results is being continued and getting extended to widespread areas. Twelve comrades have been brutally murdered in last twenty days following 13th May, 2011. More than 425 comrades had been grievously injured and admitted into hospitals. Many more had been denied rights to lodge complaint and get treatment inspite of being injured in these attacks. In certain places police was obstructed and being attacked while making attempt to rescue them. Two members of the present Legislative Assembly, Basudeb Mete and Sunil Mondal were not spared from this attack. A couple of women has been allegedly raped and more than hundred of them have been victims of outrage of modesty and physical attack. Around 412 Party offices were attacked, ransacked and looted, five of them were burnt. This number for Trade Unions offices in organized sector will be more than 65. Besides these more than 445 Party, Trade Union and Mass organizational offices were forcibly occupied with Trinomool congress flags hoisted over them. More than 157 offices were put under lock & key after driving out everybody working there.
Taking the plea of so called ‘Arms recovery’, some Party and Trade Union offices, the houses of Left leaders and workers were surrounded by people with Trinomool flags, breaking upon their doors, dramas of recovery of unusable arms from even offices under lock & key and adjacent areas were organized. A section of media were informed well before these dramas were staged. Such conspiratorial events were organized in presence of police in some places and even without them in others. The Left Leaders and workers were arrested under false cases even after thorough search of the offices conducted jointly Trinommol people and police failed to recover anything. In certain places our comrades were brutally beaten and handed over to the police after putting some sort of arms in their hand. Ceaseless attacks on party offices, houses , shops and other establishments continues in the name of victory rallies even three weeks after declaration of the election results.
The number of people evicted from their houses is around 7351 as per the reports received so far. Many more left their home to places unknown which is not covered in this report because of non availability of information. However, in all most all areas under attack people have been asked not to live their home, not even to communicate with anybody outside, to pay fine, surrender and join Trinomool rallies with their flag. The peoples’ courts are being set up for their trial.
Seven college union offices have been attacked. The elected members of students’ union are being forced to resign, from their offices and organization and change over their loyalty. The meeting of the Court of Kalyani University have been attacked. The elected members of Panchyats, Municipalities are forced to resign, resort to defection or do illegal works as per unwritten instructions under threat.
The attacks on livelihood of people, land and wages and at work places by way of not allowing them to join their work continues. It’s a matter of great concern that the recorded share cropper, patta holders and even rayats are denied their right to land and their crops.
The Left Front Leaders along with MPs and MLAs are not being allowed to visit many of these areas under attack. On one side such incidences are happening in presence of police, where as permission is denied to Left Front to conduct meeting and rallies in certain places.
The summary of aforesaid incidences so far collected inspite of lot of difficulties is annexed herewith.
Hope, you will agree that it is impossible to continue the development programmes without maintaining a democratic atmosphere, law and order and protecting the hard earned right, live, livelihood and security of the people. May be you would also feel that your positive utterances about the right of the opposition inside and outside the House and your instructions not to take law into own hand and interfere in the impartial work of the police administration are not being followed in practice. These are some of the urgent humane problems which cannot afford to wait for indefinite time without resolution. It will not be unjustified to demand that there should be significant improvement of the situation by the next week itself with the effective intervention on behalf of the State Government.
Thanking you,
Sd/- Surjya Kanta Misra
Sd/-Subhas Naskar
Deputy Leader of the Opposition Party
Sd/- Biswanath Karak
Chief Whip of the Opposition Party
Other Representatives of The Left Front Legislature Party
Sd/- Abdur Rezzak Molla, Sd/- Deblina Hembram, Sd/- Anisur Rahaman Sarkar, Sd/- Paresh Chandra Adhikari, Sd/- Probodh Chandra Sinha, Sd/- Id Mohammad, Sd/- Anandamoy Mondal, Sd/- Chand Mohammad
June, 2011
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