Kolkata: The left trade unions, women’s organisations, tribal outfits and ultra-left organisations—many of whom gave a call for “No Vote To BJP” before the 2021 assembly polls—expanded it to “No vote to BJP. No vote to Trinamool.”
These outfits on Tuesday held a convention in Kolkata to foster public opinion against both the BJP and Trinamool and expand their political opposition before the assembly polls. The mass organisations, who were earlier part of the “Abhaya movement”, decided to come under “Sangrami Ganamancha”—an umbrella organisation.
“RSS and BJP are much more dangerous than other right-wing political parties like Congress and Trinamool. But Trinamool is now paving the way for the BJP in the state due to its undemocratic and autocratic rule,” the organisations said in their draft resolution.
Kushal Debnath, who was part of the “No Vote To BJP” movement in 2021, said, “The movement during the R G Kar rape and murder showed that the binary created by the BJP and Trinamool has to end. This forum is anti-right wing, democratic and progressive in character. This forum will build its own political identity in West Bengal in the near future.”
Advocate Bharati Mutsuddi, activist Punyabrata Gun, Basudeb Basu of the All India Central Council of Trade Unions, and social activist Anuradha Talwar were present at the convention. While the Sangrami Ganamancha will fight for issues like livelihood, cultural and democratic rights, and gender equality, the members of these mass organisations will organise protest marches against the ongoing SIR this week.
“Trinamool built the Jagannath temple in response to the BJP’s Ram Mandir. Both the central and state govt are spending huge amounts to appease religious fundamentalists. This, in turn, helps the RSS to strengthen its agenda. Trinamool’s autocratic rule actually helped the BJP to gain ground in Bengal,” Debnath said. MSID:: 128755014 413 |